From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 14 17:02:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14478 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA14471 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA11352; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 20:01:56 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA10683; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:16:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:16:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Greg Lehey , jfieber@indiana.edu, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard In-Reply-To: <199607131836.UAA01435@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Greg Lehey wrote: > > touch-typist. That's why I'm still holding on to my dying Northgate > > keyboards, which have the F keys on the left, where I can access them > > without looking. Why did they ever move them away to where you can't > > find them? > > 'cause fewer and fewer people know how to use a keyboard. What!? Those F keys are much easier to hit when their up at the top of the keyboard! Now, you want to talk about misplaced keys, look at the , or better yet, , `~', ``', and --- they're too far away. The F keys, however are greatly placed! Just curl the thumb to hit the and extend a finger and you're gone! By tilting one's left hand to the left, you can even hit at the same time! I love it! OTOH, I suppose if your fingers are less than 10cm each (that's 4 inches for all the Americans here :) it could be a little harder... ;) To be fair, I suppose the last time I did try the `F' keys on the left I was about 10 (years).... However, trying to hit virtual F keys on the left must be a pretty good approximation... :) Ahh.... The days when the mouse sold with your computer still had three buttons... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk