From: utzoo!decvax!cca!APPLE@Mit-Mc@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Jerry Pournelle's Disappointment - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2544
Posted: Sun Aug  8 00:20:44 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 08:37:32 1982

From: James A Cox 
I'm sorry, but I agree with Pournelle.  He made a slight error in
saying that there are extra keys between the \space bar/ and the shift
key.  In any case, however, the shift keys and the Return key ARE
farther away than on the standard keyboard, and considering the
frequency with which these keys are used, that is quite sufficient to
ruin the whole keyboard, at least for touch typists who learned to
type on a normal keyboard.  Why IBM did this I don't know, since the
keyboards on their typewriters are excellent.  As for the PC
keyboard's good "feel," that can hardly compensate for the bad feeling
I get from typing the wrong characters because the keys are misplaced.