WORST keyboards ever (was Re: Best keyboards you've used ever!)

From: Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu Aug 26 13:25:55 2004

> Most (all?) Teletypes are pretty awful, but maybe we ought to be a little
> forgiving, being mechanical.

When we were in high school, Frank McConnell could type at a pretty
impressive rate on an ASR33 using (if I recall correctly) just his
thumbs and index fingers. He seemed to be able to duplicate the data
rate of the incoming characters. The host system would send down a
prompt and he would key a command and there was no noticeable pause
or break in rhythm between the two. Impressed me anyways...
Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 13:25:55 BST