OmniKey/Plus                full-featured replacement keyboard
Northgate Modifies Keyboard Layout
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
The OmniKey/Plus is a luxury replacement keyboard for touch
typists, the company says. The model is also compatible with most
common personal computers, including the IBM PC and PS/2, Tandy
1000, AT&T 6300 and 6300Plus, and Macs.
 
ALPS electro-mechanical key switches provide full-keystroke,
audible key action and tactile feel. Features include separate
cursor-control and numeric keypads. The cursor-control keypad has
arrow keys in a diamond pattern instead of an inverted T, which
helps prevent you from hitting the number lock or holding down
the shift key, Northgate says. The numeric keypad layout has math
operands bordering the numeric keys, large "insert," "delete,"
and "enter" keys, and three LED indicators above the pad for caps
lock, number lock, and scroll lock.
 
Twelve programmable function keys are located on the left side of
the keyboard, as F keys were on original PC keyboards. There's
also a writing strip above the keyboard that you can use to write
down mnemonics of your function keys.
 
Price: $119.
 
Contact: Northgate Computer Systems, Inc., 13895 Industrial Park
Blvd., Suite 110, Plymouth, MN, 55441, (612) 553-0111.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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