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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Touch-typing on the shuttle
Summary: Chairs in space
Message-ID: <2413@antique.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 22:48:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: antique.2413
References: <KHAI.88Oct11130950@amara.uucp>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <KHAI.88Oct11130950@amara.uucp> khai@amara.UUCP writes:
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<With all the talk about computers on the shuttle, I wonder whether it
<is very difficult to touch-type in zero G.  I would imagine so.  Every
<keystroke would probably throw you back literally, causing you to lose
<your hand's orientation.

I recently saw a photo of the inside of a Soviet space station.  The
data entry console has a backless chair mounted in front of it, with
velcro for stablizing the position of one's tush.  This apparently works
fine.

	Cheers,
-- 
	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

   "Docking complete...       Docking complete...       Docking complete..."