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From: seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: keyboard, mouse, hockey puck
Keywords: keyboard mouse schematics
Message-ID: <17852@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 22:27:54 GMT
References: <448@tivoli.UUCP>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <448@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.com (Lar Kaufman) writes:
 (in reference to DEC's keyboard and mouse design...)
>P.S.  Makes you wonder what kind of ergonomic studies DEC does, doesn't it?

i remember when DEC brought out the LK-201 keyboard design...
They were ** SO PROUD ** of the ergonomic studies they did...
(almost exact quote:) "We tested it with everybody ... we even brought
 in the janitors and let them use it."

Great -- and so a keyboard designed for non-typists hit the field
(with a Compose Key which all the typists proceeded to hit...
 at least the vt320 (and most VT-emulators) lets you ignore it, now...)
--dick