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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: more dec brain damage
Message-ID: <281@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 21:44:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 21:44:45 1984
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I am really annoyed about the keyboard on the VT220. Why do so many
people feel the need to gratuitously move keys around? The ESC key
is up in the frigid north and by the time my fingers get up there I
forget what I was looking for. Whoever designed the keyboard must
have been impressed by the potential of the IBM-PC for making people
exercise their little fingers because the left shift key is left
of where it belongs and the return key is to the right of where
it belongs. And the reason the left shift key got moved was so
the >< characters could be put next to the z key. It must have been
too easy to leave >< on top of ,. like they've always been.

Such a nice terminal, such a stupid keyboard.
-- 
 California Immigrant

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5790
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