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From: newton@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: bizzare, contorted keyboards
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Date: 5 Apr 91 04:03:32 GMT
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fvesel@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Frank Vesel) writes:
>Why would you need an obnoxiously shaped keyboard?  I can imagine a market
>for designer (i.e. swatch style) cpu cases, but cruel keyboards would be
>darn annoying to those of us who touch type.  If you don't mind me asking,
>what do you have planned?

I touch type about 60wpm. The ``obnoxiously shaped'' (nice value judgement!)
is much easier on the tendons in the forearm.  (Not the same problem as CTS.)
Try this: put both arms in front of you when sitting (and not near a kbd), 
and just relax them... They hands end up partially facing each other.

Taking a normal keyboard and melting it so that the angle of the top of the
keys 'a' and 'f' would be -30degrees and ';' .. 'j' +30 degrees would be
great.   Something like:


                        f      g      h     j
                  d                               k
            s                                           l
      a                                                        ;

, partially to scale, with maybe a little more curvature would mean
a lot less pain for me!

- mike
newton@gumby.cs.caltech.edu