Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Harting wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I always thought the Atex keyboards, especially the old style editing > keyboards, were terrific -- they had a typewriter-like touch that seemed > natural to me, but apparently were not so to some others. The larger picture > of what became of the lawsuits was that the proprietary hardware began to > disappear -- where I worked PCs replaced all but editors' terminals, which > was partly a result of newspaper economics, partly a result of style, and > importantly, partly a result of the commoditization of computers. Word and > its brothers may be "powerful" but they are awkward editing programs, but > this meant little to info services departments that had to support their > quaint architecture. > > bh Original 101 key IBM AT keyboard. I'm typing on one now, made in 1986. Near indestructable, typewriter feel. Not silent though, using mechanical switches. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html