Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mar@Mit-Borax.ARPA From: mar@Mit-Borax.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: id AA28321; Thu, 23 Feb 84 05:32:59 - (nf) Message-ID: <439@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 15:07:49 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.439 Posted: Thu Mar 29 15:07:49 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Apr-84 20:21:12 EST Lines: 19 From: Mark A. Rosenstein It may be that no one keyboard can claim to be "correct", but for people who regularly use several different keyboards, it is very desirable for them to have similar layouts. I regularly use 4 different keyboards: VT100, VT52, H19, and an alto. They all have the control keys in the same places, only brackets, and braces differ. I also occasionally use a Selectric, which has the same arrangement. While I don't mind some of the more obscure punctuation changing, moving something as fundamental as shift and return makes a keyboard useless to a touch typist who uses several other keyboards that are all the similar. I also don't understand how one can get by not using backspace or delete. They are also common enough that they shouldn't change. As long as possible, I plan to boycott keyboards that don't follow the "selectric" format. -Mark