Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Alternative Keyboards Message-ID: <18041@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 25 Jan 89 06:19:16 GMT References: <2717@ficc.uu.net> <400012@hpdsla.HP.COM> Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11 Properly, one should learn to touch-type on a blank keyboard. With many keyboards, one can pull the keytops and replace them quite easily. So one could make one's keyboard generic, if desired, by obtaining a supply of blank keytops. John Nagle "Yeah, we had some trouble with productivity with some of the old guys at first, but I put them on the typing program for half an hour a day until they come up to thirty words a minute."