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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Portable Keyboard
Message-ID: <1009@houdi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 12:04:36 EST
Article-I.D.: houdi.1009
Posted: Tue Mar  3 12:04:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 23:24:16 EST
References: <275@netxcom.UUCP> <1249@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <197@osupyr.UUCP> <96@blic.BLI.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: Think of an old three-bank typewriter keyboard

In article <96@blic.BLI.COM>, janet@blic.BLI.COM (Janet Panighetti) writes:
> 
> >>> We do have to lose the numeric keypad.....
> >>
> >> You can map [it] onto the standard keys [with] a "keypad shift" key .. to
> >> the left of the space bar.  (Pity you [can't eliminate] the top row of keys
> >> in favor of such a shift system.)  ..
> >
> >That sounds good - I might actually _use_ such a keypad!  The real reason the
> >top row can't go away is punctuation (!@#$%^&*()_+~-=`) not numerals; I (and
> >I'm sure others) would get upset if those were moved!...

(I must have come in late because all I'm answering is insertions.)

Where've you been?  Typewriters used to be "three-bank machines."  There
were three rows of keys and two shift keys.  Nobody gave up punctuation.
In fact, three rows with two shifts gives you nine virtual rows, while
four rows with one shift only gives eight.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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