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From: ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc)
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Subject: Re: Let's Talk Keyboards!
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Date: 24 Apr 91 15:57:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.031152.19175@menudo.uh.edu> svec5@menudo.uh.edu (T.C. Zhao) writes:
:In article <1991Apr23.061233.11090@engin.umich.edu> stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: 
:>My fiancee's Kaypro did that, once...  We both finally got so SICK of it
:>that I took apart the keyboard and ripped off the tiny little clicker unit.
:What is wrong with DEC?  they seem hate both UNIX and VI. Most of
:the terminals from DEC (vt2XX vt3XX vt4XX) have ESC/~` sharing the
:same key. 

My main peeve against present day keyboards are the ones that have <enter>
<backspace>, <del>, '\' and '|' within one key of each other.  Its obvious
that none of them use Unix!

On PS/2 style keyboards I also believe that moving the function keys to 
a single row across the top is a big mistake.  At least they had the brains
to put spaces between every four keys, but its still hazardous to send a 
finger flying up there and hoping it hits the delete as opposed to the
receive function key (well, that's a peeve with a certain software
program, but I think you get the idea).

At least no one is sending out the membrane or chicklet style keyboards
anymore (on real pcs at least).

Kenneth Ng
"No problem, this is how you make it" -- R. Barclay, ST: TNG