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Article #737Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
From: Pete Zakel
Date: Wed, 07 May 1986 18:13
Date: Wed, 07 May 1986 18:13
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> One pet peeve I have (that Mark missed) is that most new keyboards do not set
> off the home key positions (or at least the F and J keys), a practice that
> I find particularly upsetting, since it makes touch typing unreliable, and
> is a zero-cost thing to fix.
> --
> Chris Thomson
Why do almost all keyboards with specially indented home keys put the indents
on the F and J keys? This really irritates me! I prefer the indents on the
D and K keys because:
1) My middle fingers are longer than the others
and
2) My index finger has to hit a lot more keys and it is easier to
keep the middle finger on the home keys and orient the other
fingers to the middle finger than to always have to find the indent
with the index finger and orient the other fingers to that.
--
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)
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