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Re: Keyboard Layout

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From: Lewis Barnett The Home for the T...
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1986 16:34
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In article <59@unc.unc.UUCP> rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) writes:
>
>As long as we are talking about alternate keyboard layouts and
>styles, has anyone else come to the conclusion that I have, viz.,
>that people should have TWO (different) keyboards, one for each
>hand, and that they should be in the arms of your chair!?
>cheers,
>
>Tim

I suppose someone should point out that this would only be a good idea
if you were a touch typist who never has to look at the keys.  I sort
of fit that description, except that even after twelve years, I still
have trouble with the shifted number keys.  I've never seen any
figures, but an awful lot of the computer-folk I know are hunt-and-
peck typists, and such an arrangement would be sheer torture for
them.

Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

"Frankly, there's something about reality that gives me the shivering willies!"
						-- Hank the Hallucination --

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From: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett @ The Home for the Terminally Confused)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard Layout
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 12:34:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 12:34:21 1986
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