cad@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Owner of VLSI software) (03/25/88)
I bought my Apple //c in October '84 and recently noticed that the right half of my spacebar is worn smooth. Anybody else have this problem. (is it specific to right-handers?) [ Just a little breather between more about lawsuits ] Chris Schumann chris@leyden.cs.wisc.edu
mackay@dalcsug.UUCP (Daniel MacKay) (03/26/88)
In article <5450@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, cad@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Owner of VLSI software) writes: > I bought my Apple //c in October '84 and recently noticed that > the right half of my spacebar is worn smooth. Yah, the matte finish is polished on mine too. Now if you remember your touch typing lessons, this shouldn't be so; you're supposed to use whichever thumb that belongs to the hand that's NOT going to type the next letter, so the spacebar should wear evenly. Oh well, one more lesson down the tubes. Other places that wear quicker: the centers of my E R T I O, all the home keys except G & K, and N. Interesting. :-) just to keep in the general flavour of the current flamage of the group: :-) FLAME ON! DAMMIT WHY DIDN'T APPLE ANTICIPATE THIS UNEVEN WEARING AND PUT :-) TOUGHER PLASTIC IN THE "<space>ERTION" KEYS!!! :-) Really, considering how much I use the keyboard, I'm really pleased with how it's hung in. This is the second keyboard I have had, when I got the machine, it had the "sticky" keyboard, and I flamed the dealer until they replaced it. There's an even nicer one now, the one with the metal base, not plastic bridge underneath, but it's not enough nicer to make it worth it. --- +---------+ Dalhousie University | _ | From the Halifax, Nova Scotia | (_)===| Disk of ... Canada | | Daniel mackay@dalcsug.UUCP +---------+ ...{utai,uunet}!dalcs!dalcsug!mackay
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (03/27/88)
In article <413@dalcsug.UUCP> mackay@dalcsug.UUCP (Daniel MacKay) writes: >... you're supposed to use whichever thumb that belongs to the hand >that's NOT going to type the next letter, so the spacebar should wear evenly. Except that the left hand is usually the one that typed the character before the space. Check it out..