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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <4188@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 12:27:33 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4188
Posted: Tue Jan 20 12:27:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 00:36:40 EST
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Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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In article <1145@rti-sel.UUCP> rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) writes:

->	Do people who use a keyboard almost exclusively (like programmers
->	who don't work with paper if they can avoid it) begin to forget
->	who to write with a pencil/pen, or get worse at it?
->
->Before any of you might laugh, the other day, I was taking some notes and
->I had to stop and think how to make a capital cursive "G". And of course
->my handwriting has always been awful even before computers. Has anyone
->else noticed this problem?

	I think you have the causality backwards:  those who can't write tend
to use a keyboard almost exclusively....

I have always had terrible handwriting (to this day I STILL cannot write 
anything in cursive except my name).  If I have to sign anything (since for
legal reasons it can't be printed) I have to practice two or three times:

Capital G's and L's give me fits :-)  is it any wonder I hate mice too and
prefer a good keyboard?  ;-)

-ed cetron