German Keyboard?

My company bought some equipment from a German company for some stupid reason.
But since the German people selling to the worldwide market can't speak or read English, all their equipment is in German. We still bought it for some reason.

So I'm talking to a guy in NYC trying to help him figure out the German keyboard so he can finish setting up a PC in German to work on our system.


They sent us a Windows 95 computer system, but since IT has no say in it, that's what we work with.

I need to move to another city and get a better job.

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You can change the layout.

Vainglory be my wicked guide.

You could either change it so it's a german keyboard and windows thinks it is too - in which case I guess many symbols will have been shifted about, and it'll be a pain for touch-typists who normally know where the keys are. I remember using a keyboard which had the backslash key moved down and that was irritating enough, and I didn't even really type without looking at the keyboard back then.

The other option is to set it up as whatever layout you are used to (presumably US english in your case) which is great for any touch-typists but of course completely sucks for the two-fingered people who have to stare at the keyboard.

there's no way to win really.

Getting another job sounds like a good idea. Any IT department that actually <i>wants</i> people to use windows 95 is obviously a bunch of idiotic monkeys.

Make sure to leave, but also make sure to tell them they're a bunch of di<b></b>ckheads first

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I used a Swedish keyboard for a few years and despite there only being 3 new letters, they move other keys around as well which makes it kind of difficult at first. Nonetheless, I was typing in Swedish not english so it made sense the way they had it, but when I tried to do it in English my mind would revert back to an English keyboard which is annoying since I think they moved the comma and period.

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Everything is in German and I can't get on the PC to work through it. I'm talking a guy through it who isn't completely computer literate. haha Needless to say after 2 hours of talking on this, it's been a pain. Everything on the computer is in German so even trying to understand it isn't that easy for them.

Here's the layout of the keyboard being used which I found on another website <A HREF="http://library.reed.edu/lang/germankeyboard.html" target="_new">german keyboard</A>
The German people tend not to like to speak English to our guys but for some reason, our plants keep buying foreign stuff. The newest is some equipment from Austria and they don't speak English at all over there apparently.

Ahh the fun times. I can't believe this thing wasn't put on at least a Windows 2000 computer.

Another company we work with just moved their software from 16 bit to 32 bit but it's really buggy.

And again, IT has no say in what these people use, they buy it, we make it work. The saying going around lately is "it's a f*cking computer, make it work."

Nice stuff.

On another note, our Tampa plant semi-burnt from a fire and our Houston plant is preparing to get hit by a Cat 4-5 hurricane and expecting to lose the building. Fun stuff.

Try cyrillic or thai. That sucked.

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Take it from behind, Bunny.

I'm sure the Africans that use clicks and burps to talk have got the most messed up keyboard of all.

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The Swede's are up to a three letter alphabet ?
















just joking they are to smart for their own boots. Euro Fighter a case in point.

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Might be thinking of the planes built by Saab.

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I am surprised at you not knowing about the Euro Fighter RobD. I am even more surprised you walked into this one doing a Full Monty!!

You know the Swiss are watch makers who do you think made the wind-up spring that powers the silly thing.

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I went to a bar last night called Sodbusters.. interesting..

All this talk on the Eurofighter starting from a rant about a German keyboard.

You people are like women.. random talk on things goes from one thing to another.

Interesting topic now though..

About as random as your bunny taking it from behind. Woman. *shrug* [/RC]

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Only for Winger over there.. only for it..

What the hell is up with sod anyways? Not familar with what the big deal is on that one around here..

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