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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Keywords: keyboards
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Date: 28 Sep 88 05:16:16 GMT
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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.

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