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From: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Ross Alford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP95 keyboard?
Summary: Is it useable
Keywords: size,typing
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.063838.20847@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jun 91 06:38:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: marlin.1991Jun10.063838.20847
Organization: James Cook University
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Now that a few of you have had HP95s for a while, how do you really find
the keyboards?  I'm thinking about getting one when they eventually
become available here, but do have my doubts about the keyboard.  I am a
fast 3-4 finger typist on standard keyboards, have tried a Portfolio and
could get by on that except for the little ridge below the space bar
which gets in the way of my thumb, and would like to be able to write
letters etc. on a small machine.

By the way, perhaps the Byte reference to the HP95 being the first
machine to run 123 really meant 123?  The spreadsheet in the Pofo is all
right, but lacks what to me is the most useful part of 123--the
graphics.  I use 123 mostly to play with equations, doing small
simulations of difference equation systems and such, and find that
without graphics this is not nearly as interesting.

Ross
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Ross A. Alford
Department of Zoology                      Internet: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au
James Cook University                      Phone:    +61 77 81 4732
Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia