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From: mitch@amiga.UUCP (Mitchell R. Gass)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New keyboard references
Message-ID: <1467@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 16:17:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  5 16:17:42 1986
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Reply-To: mitch@horse.UUCP (Mitchell R. Gass)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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>> keyboards on .. new Amiga...
>> ... have the keyboard references (those little pimples) 
>> on the D and the K, rather than the F and the J.  These are the first
>> keyboards like this I have seen....
>
>I know Macintosh is a dirty word, but just for intellectual interest, the
>Mac Plust keyboard also has the pimples on the D & K. Hmm.
>
>Wade

The D and K keys are under your longest fingers.  These fingers 
usually touch the keyboard first, thus you get feedback
about your hand position sooner with marks on the D and K. 
You have an extra instant to decide where you are before you 
type that first wrong letter.

There is also a Jovian keyboard with dots on the Z and \ keys,
but it isn't currently sold in the U.S. 

Mitchell Gass
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