Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Apple, Kay Pro, Matias - all these are the best that the computer world could give us since when the "kids" took over. Man, none of them even knew what a control total was, much less a real keyboard. Not one keyboard in all this discussion carried through with the IBM dished home keys and the correct placement of the zero key. Even IBM wrecked it. Really, where were the engineers?! Mostly trying to figure out how to make CP/M and DOS play faster computer games, I suspect. The career of application programming used to mean that you solved business problems with computers. Now you go into businesses to solve computer problems. Since the "kids" took over in the early 80's, the career changed drastically. I can't count how many times I've gone from hero to zero, crawling around the floor to fix interface problems when the client had hired me to modify a database. Maybe Phil identified the source of the problem in the last line of his e-mail below . . . But hey, computers did bring us this e-list where I can "vent" on something actually on-topic, because cameras are now computers to which you attach lenses. Gary Todoroff (Tree LUGger) > -----Original Message----- > Behalf Of Phil Swango > Wow! Kaypro lovers unite! Here's another vote for the best > keyboard ever. > I could fly on that thing and never typed that fast again on > anything else. > When I bought mine I worked at the National Inst. of Health in > Bethesda. I > lugged my Kaypro up to the office and before you could blink the whole > office was learning Wordstar and dBase II. > > I remember reading a column by Wm Buckley praising the Kaypro keyboard, > touch typing in general, and the author Peter McWilliams, who > wrote the book > "Word Processing on the Kaypro." McWilliams was a libertarian > activist who > supported medical cannabis and other political causes. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/311 - Release Date: 4/13/2006