Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece From: preece@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: id AA28321; Thu, 23 Feb 84 05:32:59 - (nf) Message-ID: <5905@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 22:45:43 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5905 Posted: Mon Feb 27 22:45:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Feb-84 01:39:12 EST Lines: 24 #R:decwrl:-576300:uicsl:7000056:000:1024 uicsl!preece Feb 27 08:29:00 1984 Complaints about the placement of special keys on keyboards always strike me as pretty silly. You learn to use whatever arrangement you have. If there WERE a standard, that would make life a lot easier, just as a standard operating system would make life easier, but in the current environment it's silly to protest that keyboard A isn't like keyboard B because keyboard B has no better claim to righteousness than A. I'm glad you like the placement of keys on your Selectric, but I'm afraid mine doesn't have an ESC, an LF, or a BREAK. I confess that I never use BS, DEL, or LF, anyway, so putting them up with the function keys wouldn't bother me. I do use ESC, but my Ann Arbor already puts it up with the numbers, so an inch further up wouldn't bother me much. Putting the CTRL key that far away would be stupid, since you need to hit another key at the same time, but for a single key, already on the periphery of the typing area, you can learn to reach a little further. scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece