Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mg32+ From: mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Ginsberg) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Avoiding Wrist Damage when Typing Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 89 11:00:16 GMT References: <15349@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1932@dover.sps.mot.com> <1646@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>, <297@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: <297@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> OK... I have a question... As a programmer/student/computer_operator, I type a heck of a lot (far too much for my body's good) and already, on occasion, feel some weakness and pain in my wrists... which could be anything from plain exhaustion to something far worse... Now I like tactile feel (the feeling of a "click" - of the key being pushed back up by a tight spring beneath a certain depression level) but as I sit and read the posts on this bboard, it occurred to me that this may be more damaging than a "mushy" keyboard, which, so it seems, may be a lot less stressful... Well, even though I love my Northgate keyboard, should I, in preparation of another few dozen years, go and put back my original motherboard (one that is incredibly mushy), keep this one (for some reason I cannot currently think of) or keep this one (because it doesn't make a difference one way or another)? --Michael Ginsberg Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARPA: mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu |Electrocution, n: BITNET:mg32%andrew@cmccvb | Burning at the stake with UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mg32+ | all the modern improvements. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.