Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!info-mac From: info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) Newsgroups: ont.micro.mac Subject: Re: keyboard query Message-ID: <4474@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 02:09:35 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4474 Posted: Tue Jun 5 02:09:35 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 02:20:40 EDT Sender: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 20 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