[geeks] "shallow" keyboards

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/11/11 13:00, John Francini wrote:
>> You are discovering, I believe, that when you buy a cheap package-bundle
>> desktop, every component is supplied by the lowest bidder.  IMHO an
>> awful lot of the low-end keyboards on the market are ergonomic and
>> functional atrocities.  My first and most visible marker to avoid any
>> keyboard is if it has one of those gigantic two-row-deep Enter keys
>> apparently intended for people who type via the forehead-smash method.
>>
>>
>> THAG HAVE WORDS IN HEAD.
>> THAG BASH HEAD ON THING WITH LETTERS ON.  MAYBE WORDS COME OUT.
> 
> You mean like the original IBM Selectric keyboard, which had a huge 'Return'
> key?

Lots of IBM keyboards have had the Huge Enter/Return Key syndrome.  It
still annoys me.  :)



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