info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/31/84)
Date: Wed 30 May 84 11:57:26-PDT From: Richard Furuta <uw-beaver!Furuta@LOCAL> Subject: keyboard query To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Cc: Furuta@LOCAL For a while now around here, various people have been remarking that the Mac's keyboard seems "crowded." Yesterday, we got around to measuring the key spacing and were surprised to find that it seems to be the same as all of the other keyboards on other various terminals. No one is saying that these other keyboards feel crowded but the comment keeps coming up about the Mac. Does anyone know what it might be in the Mac's keyboard design that causes these impressions? --Rick -------
info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (06/02/84)
Date: 31 May 1984 04:50-EDT From: Jerry E. Pournelle <uw-beaver!POURNE@MIT-MC> Subject: keyboard query To: Furuta@LOCAL Cc: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM In-Reply-To: Msg of Wed 30 May 84 11:57:26-PDT from Richard Furuta <Furuta at WASHINGTON.ARPA> The Otrona keyboard is precisely the same size as the IBM Selectric keyboard, but because the whle mess is so small (there is no margin around it, you might say) it SEEMS small and many people think it is "crowded" until they try it. i would guess that you are getting the same phenomenon. jep
info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (06/05/84)
From: uw-beaver!ihnp4!utzoo!henry@Berkeley
Date: 2 Jun 84 18:42:56 CDT (Sat)
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
Subject: Re: keyboard query
We all owe the Macintosh design team a vote of thanks for having the
courage to build a small keyboard, without a built-in numeric pad and
150 function keys. It is clearly fashionable to enlarge keyboards to
(and, in some cases, beyond) the limits of sanity. It also confers a
marketing advantage, since people who don't know any better (and quite
a few who should!) take the same more-is-better view of keyboards as
they do of lists of software "features". One has to look harder and
harder to find a terminal or microcomputer with a convenient-sized
keyboard bearing a reasonable number of keys. Thank you, Apple!
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry