Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Clicking keyboards and tired fingers Message-ID: <281@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 19:21:47 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.281 Posted: Thu Jun 23 19:21:47 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 21:50:40 EDT References: utcsrgv.1537 Lines: 14 I think that you are pressing harder because even though many people like it, the click is an annoying sound, and it tends to make you mad subconsciously. If you think about it, it's a techno-phobic feature: the terminal companies were afraid that people would freak if they typed in silence after all those years of "Tap tap-tap " etc., on a manual. Personally, the sound of typewriters (I did learn before I'd ever seen a video terminal) annoys me, but I guess I'm just peevish about things like that. Friends tell me they like Key-click because it lets them know they've hit the key. I've got my own internal software for that. --Randy rh@mit-eddie