Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!nick
From: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Keyboards
Message-ID: <2124@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jan 89 13:42:09 GMT
Reply-To: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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What we really need (as usual!) is a standard. If the interface between
a detachable keyboard and a terminal was standardised we could all have
our own customised keyboards to suit our particular preferences.
We could carry them around with us and just plug into a terminal which
we wanted to use. This might even provide security benefits in places
like schools and universities where access is difficult to control.

I can't wait to get my hands on one of those keyboards which comes in two 
halves - one for each hand. They are supposed to reduce RSI (Repetitive
Strain Injury) which, I recently heard, is rapidly gaining on back ache
as a reason for days off work! This might be an exageration though - 
apparently RSI has started to affect journalists and so they are making
a big hoo hah about it in the press and on the radio :-).


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