9 Feb
2021
9 Feb
'21
10:29 p.m.
On 2/8/21 1:50 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, David Barto wrote:
I totally agree about the Selectric keyboard. As a grad student, I
looked for keyboards that felt like a Selectric, and considered
considered it a requirement to have tactile feedback when I hit a key.
Sadly now, "chiclet" keyboards are considered the gold standard, and two
thumbs on a phone is the new Mavis Beacon.
The HS replaced the IBM Selectrics with cheap PC
clones the next year.
The Selectric was the best typewriter ever; it just felt "natural".
-- Dave