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From: dean@violet.berkeley.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The NeXT keyboard...?
Summary: Better small than large
Keywords: NeXT keyboard small big enough
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Date: 14 Nov 88 02:15:48 GMT
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  zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
>.... Also, I found that if you are one of the
>lazy like me, and want to put the keyboard in your lap, say, it is
>simply too dratted small, and uncomfortable to work with if it is not on
>a perfectly flat surface like a table....

I'd rather have a keyboard that's too small than too large.  If it's too small
I can always rest it on a big (but thin!) book for my lap.  If it's too large,
though, it will _always_ eat a big bite of my desk.  Not to say that I liked
the original Mac keyboard (but that had more to do with the feel and the 
selection and layout of keys, not the shape).

-Dean

Dean Pentcheff        dean@violet.berkeley.edu
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