Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:5225 comp.unix.wizards:14104 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!texbell!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: AT&T 630 terminal - software ?? Message-ID: <8744@alice.UUCP> Date: 13 Jan 89 15:05:33 GMT References: <242@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1003@vsi.COM> <9348@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5334@pdn.UUCP> Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs Lines: 29 In article <5334@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes: >In article <9348@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: > >>Why do they make keyboards so wide? > > To annoy us? > >>I need room on my desk for things other than the @#&*^% keyboard, >>for example the mouse and my coffee cup! > ^^^^^^^^^^ > Glad to see you have your priorities straight, Doug :-) >... Well, clearly the 630 keyboard (both models), as well as the IBM "advanced" AT-keyboard and the many clones are designed for left-handed people only. You can have the mouse very close to your left hand, and that should be very convenient. (I think one wants to access the mouse more often than the coffeecup.) For right-handed people like me the numeric keypad and the cursor keypad have only one effect: they put the mouse farther away from the usable part of the keyboard. I am still waiting for someone to interface the nice gnot-keyboard to the 630... Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------