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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: New keyboard references
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Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 15:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 10 15:01:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Aug 10 14:01:00 1986


re: new keyboard's pimples on D & K not F & J

>It doesn't matter that the D and K are under your longest fingers
>because those fingers are not the ones that you're trained to use as
>reference.  In typing class they teach you to home your fingers ...
>honestly, it doesn't speed up the time used to home the fingers
>because it's still disorienting and hard to get used to when it's the
>only keyboard (of all that I use) which have the pimples on the K and
>D keys.

i'm not trying to make a big deal out of this (i'm not a touch typist,
so the pimples don't matter to me), but the argument above sounds an
awful lot like the standard "but we never did it that way before"
applied to all innovations.