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From: lav@mtsbb.UUCP (L.A.VALLONE)
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Subject: Re: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 12:01:26 EDT
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> In article <163@mtsbb.UUCP>, lav@mtsbb.UUCP (L.A.VALLONE) writes:
> >                      The streamlined feel of the "new" electronic
> > keyboards just doesn't cut it.  Of the above, I found the hp 2621
> > keyboard the closest to the Selectric and the least tiring.
> 
> And herein lies the biggest problem.  I *loath* the hp2621 keyboard.
> I hate it so much I mutilated one last night (it was an accident,
> really!).  There are funny keys in funny places that I bump with my hands,
> not my fingers.  The CAPS and CTRL are reversed.  The feel is terrible.
> The timing for the BREAK key crashed my microvax (thus, the mutilation).

You caught it, my mistake.  When I wrote the above, I wanted to
say that the Anne Arbor Ambassador was the keyboard I preferred
and found the least tiring.  [It seems that my fingers aren't
the only thing confused :-( ].  Sorry about being too lazy to
correct this earlier.

> 
> Anyway, the problem is that we all like the keyboard we use the most.
> Mark Horton and I use similar keyboards and like them.  Lee Vallone
> likes a somewhat different keyboard.  I don't say he's wrong, but it's
> going to be rough trying to make a standard here.
> 
> Maybe the hp2621 keyboards we have at Wisconsin are just mush, that's all.
> The touch I like best is: Concept 108, uvaxII keyboard (dumb top-row
> layout, though).  Given time, I can get used to anything, except a
> Visual 200.
> 

I agree.  Up until last year we had quite a few 2621s here and almost
without exception, they were all mush.

It seems people in general can get used to anything.  The problem
is, once we get used to something (e.g. keyboard layout) we don't
want to change (how many people are using Dvorak layouts?).

> -- 
> Dave Cohrs
> (608) 262-1204
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> dave@rsch.wisc.edu

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Lee Vallone		AT&T Information Systems	Merlin
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