Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:04:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960717155530.252D-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607161007.MAA17210@allegro.lemis.de>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Just by chance I bought a Microsoft "ergonomic" keyboard yesterday > (no, not for me, for a customer). I tried it out and found it much > worse than I expected. It takes more than a day to settle into it. > I couldn't type at all, and the Alt-ctrl-foo > combinations were even worse than on a normally broken keyboard, due > probably to this damn silly flag key. I use the little finger on control (mapped to the key labeled caps lock) and the thumb on alt. It work just dandy for me. I find alt-control more trouble on regular keyboards, unless the control is down on the bottom row where it shouldn't be. However, I can see how control alt would be bad on the MS without the control remapped. > to handle. Normally I rest my forearms on the armrest of the chair, > and that doesn't work if you have to twist them through 15°. I guess you have a different geometry. :-) You probably should check out the US$500 Comfort Keyboard. You can adjust it about any way you could possibly want. > intended for that. I wonder if this is the beginning of an indication > that the mainstream has seen the error of its ways and is coming back > to using the keyboard for data entry. I'd interpret it as a recognition that it is easier to offer a couple input mechanisms than to standardize the user. In reality, I'll bet its more a marketing gimmic than anything else. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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