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From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <1424@umd5>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 03:53:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 03:53:06 1987
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References: <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: Ditto

In article <4188@utah-cs.UUCP> cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) writes:

> 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?  ;-)

(Hiya Ed!)
Dunno if the chicken or the egg came first, but I could NEVER write decently
(they experimented on us kids - really! - but that's another story...)

It drives me batty when I have to write a check and cannot remember how to 
do the cursive version of some seldom used letter like Y or Z!  I always
print when making notes for myself but got in the bad habit of doing all
upper-case when gridding for keypunch and now the lower-case sensitivity of
Unix is killing me...
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