At 7:53 PM -0600 1/11/08, Jason T wrote:
OK, there are a couple that belong there and were
expected, but a few
missing, and some that make no sense at all. The C64?? Sure, I still
hit Shift-2 on occasion for a quote, but I learned my mighty speed
typing skills on that 'board.
Actually I thought his complaints about it had some merit, and my
first computer was a VIC-20 (which I used for 4 years). I'd
personally have added the VT100 keyboard to the list for the exact
same reasons the author gave, ergonomics. But then in the 80's this
kind of thing was normal and none of us gave it a second thought.
Zane
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