Personal taste plays a large part in choosing a keyboard. Some people like keys with a firm feel. Some prefer mushy keys. There are essentially two styles of keyboards for the XT. First is the AT layout. Second is the IBM enhanced layout. IBM received a great deal of criticism for the keyboards it used on the PC Jr PC and XT. When the AT was released they used a new layout; function keys on the left the standard keyboard layout number keys on the right. This layout still had a problem especially those working with numbers because it is necessary to toggle between the cursor pad and number pad.
A new layout with 101 keys, which it now uses on all of its computers it’s referred to as the Microsoft Natural layout. This layout has 12 function keys across the top and a separate cursor and number pad. This design is rapidly becoming the industry standard.
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TYPES OF KEYBOARD
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101 – key enhanced keyboard.
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84 – key AT keyboard.
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83 – key PC and XT keyboard
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