Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns) Keywords: keyboards Message-ID: <38992@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 05:16:16 GMT References: <278@itcatl.UUCP> <5962@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <3510@phri.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Distribution: na Organization: Yale University, New Haven, CT Lines: 17 In article <3510@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: | c91a-ra@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (reader.john.kawakami) writes: | | How about a Control key on each side of the keyboard. | | The only keyboard I've ever seen like this was on the lowly ADM-5. It had | a control key on either side of the (shortish) space bar. In theory a good | idea, but I nevet got used to using the right one. The IBM PS/2 keyboards have both Ctrl and Alt duplicated on either side of the keyboard. This means you can hit ctrl-just-about-anything with one hand, which helps handicapped users as well as coffee drinkers. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ These opinions are mine. I do not represent Yale University in any way.