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Subject: More keyboard bogosity
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Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 17:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 17:53:00 1983
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From:  Larry Seiler 

    Keyboards should have arrow keys for cursor movement, and the left arrow
key should NOT be used for the delete character function (TRS-80 does this).
But more than that, there should be NOT be function keys surrounding the
arrow keys (such as the IBM PC keyboard has, among others).  It's too easy
to hit one of the function keys while moving the cursor, and have bad things
happen (hitting the wrong arrow key is a mistake that is easy to see & fix).
Maybe other people have eyes in their fingers and don't make typing mistakes,
but when I use a keyboard with arrow keys and function keys (eg, erase screen,
new page, etc.) grouped together, I go crazy.

Larry Seiler
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