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From: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat
Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
Message-ID: <1316@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 20:19:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: oddjob.1316
Posted: Mon May  5 20:19:09 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 20:59:26 EDT
References: <2071@cbosgd.UUCP> <1314@oddjob.UUCP> <132@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics
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Keywords: keyboard, standard, ANSI
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In article <132@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> sas1@sphinx.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler) writes:
>In article <1314@oddjob.UUCP> mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes:
>>The vt200 has ",," and ".." keys, as on many typewriters, and
>>puts <> on a key between Z and SHIFT; as you might expect, this
>>is a real pain, and no one around here likes it. 
>
>I have even seen some one from DEC strongly defend this positioning in a
>discussion of standard keyboards for the APL community.  In general that
>keyboard seems to be motivated by an attempt to court the secretarial user and 
>the europeans.

It would seem so, except that if they were trying to exactly reproduce the
standard typewriter keyboard, they did a lousy job of key positioning,
what with the left shift key shifted left and the return key shifted right.
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