Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!sbcs!ganesh From: ganesh@sbcs.UUCP (Ganesh Gopalakrishnan) Newsgroups: net.info-terms Subject: Where else could the control-key be located ? Message-ID: <171@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 12:12:17 EST Article-I.D.: sbcs.171 Posted: Thu Mar 7 12:12:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:39:32 EST Distribution: net Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 13 My little fingers have born the brunt of depressing the control-keys all these years. It hurts quite badly after many hours. (e.g. after using an editor like Emacs for quite some time.) After a few years of depressing the control-keys, my little fingers have started looking like the parenthesis symbol !! I could find no reason why the terminal manufacturers could not come with a foot pedal operated control key. It could be a simple mouse like device that gets connected to the side of the terminal (much like plugging headphones into an audio system.) Let me hear the "aye"s and "nay"s please.