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Article #729Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
From: Scott R. Anderson
Date: Tue, 06 May 1986 00:19
Date: Tue, 06 May 1986 00:19
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In article <132@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> sas1@sphinx.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler) writes:
>In article <1314@oddjob.UUCP> mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes:
>>The vt200 has ",," and ".." keys, as on many typewriters, and
>>puts <> on a key between Z and SHIFT; as you might expect, this
>>is a real pain, and no one around here likes it.
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>I have even seen some one from DEC strongly defend this positioning in a
>discussion of standard keyboards for the APL community. In general that
>keyboard seems to be motivated by an attempt to court the secretarial user and
>the europeans.
It would seem so, except that if they were trying to exactly reproduce the
standard typewriter keyboard, they did a lousy job of key positioning,
what with the left shift key shifted left and the return key shifted right.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!oddjob!mrl From: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard Message-ID: <1316@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-May-86 20:19:09 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.1316 Posted: Mon May 5 20:19:09 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 20:59:26 EDT References: <2071@cbosgd.UUCP> <1314@oddjob.UUCP> <132@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics Lines: 22 Keywords: keyboard, standard, ANSI