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From: morash@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Morash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: A rational keyboard for an XT clone?
Keywords: keyboard; PC/XT; sanity
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Date: 28 Dec 90 02:57:42 GMT
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In article <6056@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
>Mild flame on:
>	Why on earth to all the 101-key keyboards have CAPS LOCK
>	where CONTROL is supposed to be?  I use CONTROL 1,000 times
>	a day and CAPS LOCK never.  Do other people use CAPS LOCK
>	so much that it deserves a place on the keyboard's home row?
>Mild flame off.

Hmmmmm....I never thought about it. I do occasionally hit CAPS LOCK by 
mistake and then have to spend a couple of seconds figuring out
what is exactly going on. 

Then again I find it easy to hold crtl down with my pinky and hit the
key I want by angling or extending my hand. 
-- 
Dave Morash	
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