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Article #29682Re: Third party keyboards for the Mac
From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1988 15:48
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1988 15:48
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In article <5223@super.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>Not that I really want to start a massive netwar on the human factors of key-
>boards, but why is 'next to the "A"' the right place for the control key? I
>suspect it is only because that is the way it was on the keyboard you learned
>on.
This is true, although the real reason is that I have 2 other keyboards at
work, and that's where the control key is on both of them. Like I said, I
have enough trouble going between emacs and vi occasionally; let's not
compound the problem.
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Third party keyboards for the Mac Message-ID: <449@esquire.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 88 15:48:28 GMT References: <5204@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <6500034@hpindda.HP.COM> <444@esquire.UUCP> <5223@super.upenn.edu> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 15