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Subject: Re: keyboard query
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 02:09:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 02:09:35 1984
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From: uw-beaver!ihnp4!utzoo!henry@Berkeley
Date: 2 Jun 84 18:42:56 CDT (Sat)
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
Subject: Re: keyboard query

We all owe the Macintosh design team a vote of thanks for having the
courage to build a small keyboard, without a built-in numeric pad and
150 function keys.  It is clearly fashionable to enlarge keyboards to
(and, in some cases, beyond) the limits of sanity.  It also confers a
marketing advantage, since people who don't know any better (and quite
a few who should!) take the same more-is-better view of keyboards as
they do of lists of software "features".  One has to look harder and
harder to find a terminal or microcomputer with a convenient-sized
keyboard bearing a reasonable number of keys.  Thank you, Apple!

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry