Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There was/is a keyboard able to reach 150-200 characters p.m. ................. highly portable, easy to use ............... nowadays adaptable to virtually any keying system ............... in the form of the CyKey, about 5'' wide and 4" long and 0.25" deep, it can enter every asci character. Compare that to a normal keyboard .............. on whatever. Want to try/learn/buy. I still have 30+ of the old model! http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=558&st=1 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~len/boog/aghist.htm Hava lookie see. B. On 11-apr-2006, at 1:09, lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote: > Gary writes (Lympa blog) > > <<I've always wondered at how technology makes such huge leaps over > amazing distances and forgets the > toothbrush. Computer keyboards are another example of a high level > of ergonomics at the brochure level. > Thirty years ago, IBM keypunch machines had a feature that is now > lost - the "F" and "J homekeys were > dished in deeper than the other keys. When PC keyboards came out, > my fingers were lost, and I did not > know why. Looking carefully at the old keyboards, I discovered that > without conscious effort, my fingers > naturally fell into the home keys. Why would such a useful feature > completely disappear from all modern > keyboards?>> > > Gary, > > Apple computer keyboards have little pips on the home keys. > Obviously some people at Apple still touch type. > Stangely enough, the newer keyboards for the PPC and MacIntels have > the pips on the F and J keys, while > the older keyboards have the pips on the D and K keys. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information