Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb From: trb@floyd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Clicking keyboards and tired fingers Message-ID: <1683@floyd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 10:54:42 EDT Article-I.D.: floyd.1683 Posted: Fri Jun 24 10:54:42 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 00:45:48 EDT Lines: 12 I find key-click annoying. I have a VW Rabbit GTI which has an idiot lamp to tell you when to shift into a higher gear. Had it not been disabled when I bought the car, I would have disconnected it myself. I guess the shift-up lamp is VW's answer to key-click. Actually, I've heard that the lamp was a major coup by VW which enabled them to milk a higher MPG rating out of the EPA. VW told them that the lamp would condition people to shift "properly" and get more efficiency out of the cars. If the EPA bought it, then more power to VW. Could it be that the key-click manufacturers claim higher WPM? Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491