Rich Veraa wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
JS> No, this is a Gateway 120 Anykey keyboard from around 1991-92. It's
JS> the best key board I've ever used, including the newer Anykey boards
JS> that require more fussing around to program (users would hit the
JS> program key and remap half there keys before they knew it I guess).
JS> It requires nothing to work with OS/2, or any other OS far as I
JS> know, just plugged it in and it works.
RV> Can you program it to do "sticky keys?" I mean setting the
RV> , , and keys so that if you hit them once,
RV> the NEXT key hit will be affected by the shify, ctl or alt.
RV> This is needed by the disabled who type with a stick and
RV> cannot press more than one key at a time.
I don't think it will do this, other than you can program Shift+Ctl+Alt+the
keystrokes you need next to one key.
RV> There are utilities to do this with software in DOS or
RV> Windows, and it can be done in OS/2 (but it's clumsy to
RV> use), but there's no way to do it in Linux. I use a
RV> Northgate Omnikey programmable keyboard (very expensive and
RV> hard to get), and have been looking for other alternatives.
You could assign Shift+Ctrl to one of the extra F1 keys for example, then
when the app called for a 3 key combo, hit that F1 key, the program will
pause then waiting for the 3rd key.
As far as expensive goes, I recall around 3-4 years ago gateway was selling
this keyboard for $35, I wish I would have bought an extra then. Someone
posted once who made it for Gateway, wish I had saved that message also.
Jack
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