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OT: Keyboard spacebar is unlabeled



On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:40 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:57:36 -0500
> Gordon Marx <gcmarx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:52:23 -0500, Bob Gorman <bob at rsi.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any insight into this phenomenon?
> > 
> > My work machine (Sun SunBlade 150) has TWO unlabeled keys -- spacebar
> > and the blank key where Esc "should be".
> > 
> > I've never understood it, but then again, the things I don't
> > understand could fill a library needing several inconveniently large
> > buildings to house. :--)
> You guys are all wimps. You should have learned touch typing where all
> the keys are unlabeled. 
> 
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You guys must all have old-fashioned non-ergonomic keyboards. On my
Kinesis keyboard every key has a label. The space "bar" is a button
operated by the side of the right thumb. The left thumb operates other
buttons, like delete and backspace. 
-- 
Paul W Jameson <paul_jameson at comcast.net>





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