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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 11 Nov 1996 05:31:38 GMT
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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>	I *hope* that you mean a Teletype.  Every Decwriter keyboard that I
>have ever used had an excellent keyboard.  However, on an ASR-33 Teletype,
>you could balance a broom, handle down, on a key without applying enough
>force to cause it to send the character. :-)

Wasn't it GREAT?  It has a mechanical interlock so that no two keys could
be pressed at the same time.  This interlock was gradiated, such that as
pressure was released on the "down" key, the "up but would like to be down"
key would slide downward.  After a few years of practice with this feedback
loop I learned to type at exactly 10CPS and could continue so for minutes
at a time.  THOSE were the days.  (My friends tell me that this must be why
I love the VT100's keyboard so much.)  Carpal what?
-- 
Paul Vixie
La Honda, CA			"Illegitimibus non carborundum."
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