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From: pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel)
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Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 14:13:46 EDT
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> One pet peeve I have (that Mark missed) is that most new keyboards do not set
> off the home key positions (or at least the F and J keys), a practice that
> I find particularly upsetting, since it makes touch typing unreliable, and
> is a zero-cost thing to fix.
> -- 
> Chris Thomson

Why do almost all keyboards with specially indented home keys put the indents
on the F and J keys?  This really irritates me!  I prefer the indents on the
D and K keys because:

	1) My middle fingers are longer than the others
and
	2) My index finger has to hit a lot more keys and it is easier to
	   keep the middle finger on the home keys and orient the other
	   fingers to the middle finger than to always have to find the indent
	   with the index finger and orient the other fingers to that.
-- 
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)