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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: id AA28321; Thu, 23 Feb 84 05:32:59 - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 22:45:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 22:45:43 1984
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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
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