Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Let's Talk Keyboards! Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991Apr2.104658.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 22:49:47 GMT In article <1991Apr2.104658.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes: > What *keyboards* do people prefer? I prefer a VT100 style keyboard without the odd repeat-key weirdness that keyboard has... though that's a minor gripe. > What keyboards do people hate? I hate the new DEC IBM-PC-clone keyboards. > too skwishy, to awkward? (I had to teach a semester of Pascal to some > unfortunate students using DEC VT100 terminals, last year. Poor souls!) > I personally will go out of my way (through terminal emulation, file > transfer) so that I can use a DEC LK201 keyboard. Funny thing that... my preference is exactly reversed. Moral: this subject is entirely a matter of personal taste, and de gustibus non est disputandum. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"