6 Sep
2018
6 Sep
'18
4:47 p.m.
Heh, another Guy. Who likes short keyboards, same as me. I refuse to use anything
but 10keyless keyboards, since I object to the extra distance between mouse at right
and the alpha key area. I never use the numeric pad if it's there.
Guy
At 09:28 AM 6/09/2018 -0700, you wrote:
My biggest complaint with DEC terminals (and clones)
that came after the VT100
(such as the VT220/VT320/etc) is that the terminals are nice and small but the
keyboards are *huge* (almost twice the width of the terminal itself).
I like having a keyboard that matches the size of the terminal and the VT100 is
along those lines.
It is also the same complaint that I have with IBM 3178/9 terminals (e.g. connect
to IBM 370 mainframes), where the terminal is relatively small but the keyboard is
significantly wider (being a derivative of the IBM PC/AT keyboard) and IMHO
would have been far better if IBM had left off the number pad.
TTFN - Guy