Hi,Bob,
Several keyboard makers, including KeyTronics, and SunTouch,
made 101-key AT-style
keyboards with two sets of function keys; 12 across the top like the
AT-style keyboard, and 10 in two columns down the left side, like the XT
keyboard. On the left side were two extra keys to give you F11 and F12 that
the XT board did not know about. You positioned a switch or a set of
switches recessed under the bottom of the board to determine which set of
function keys would be activated, and some of those keyboards came with
software, including DOS and Windows 3.1 software, on a floppy disk to let
you program other functions or macros into the set of function keys you
would not be using as function keys. I have not seen such a keyboard new in
most run-of-the-mill computer stores in a couple years now, but they still
crop up at salvage and second-hand computer stores, and at weekend computer
"shows". Once you get used to that extra dedicated set of arrow keys and
those six other cursor keys, you'll wondered how you ever lived without
them. It's possible that not having function keys on the left might take a
little longer to learn to live with, and it still may not buy you anything
in the area of considering that placement an improvement.
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