WORST keyboards ever

From: Ed Kelleher <Pres_at_macro-inc.com>
Date: Sun Aug 29 05:58:38 2004

At 09:22 PM 8/28/2004, you wrote:
>You'll find this shocking coming from a big HP fan... but...
>
>I can't stand the keyboard layout on the ubiquitous 700/96 terminal. That's
>probably why I don't use my D220 server much.

Don't know anything about HP computers.
But I marvelled years ago at guys programming on an HP1000.

Their terminals had a rotary switch for baud rate at the upper left.
To freeze a listing that was scrolling by on their terminal,
they'd !quick! roll the switch to 0 baud or something, then !quick! roll it
back.

What a kludge compared to Xon/Xoff ^S ^Q that decent terminals like the
VT52/VT100 used. :-)

They had a stack of keyboards, guess they wore the switches out.

Ed
Received on Sun Aug 29 2004 - 05:58:38 BST