3 Nov
2022
3 Nov
'22
2:35 a.m.
My elementary school teacher recommended to my mother that she buy me a typewriter and I
took typing in summer school. Little did we know being able to type 60wpm would end up
being.
On Nov 2, 2022, at 05:24, Steffen Nurpmeso
<steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20221102121352.MhcLw%steffen(a)sdaoden.eu>:
|steve jenkin wrote in
| <E212D205-B786-4441-A95B-B5F5546B5C6C(a)canb.auug.org.au>:
| ...
||I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills with the people of \
||the CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?
|
|What i personally find more fascinating (given that -- in the
|right condition -- i type pretty fast even in total darkness but
|darkest possible monitor brightness) is the multitaskability some
|show, in respect to combination of mouse and keyboard (or even
|dual-mouse if i remember a message of Rob Pike right). I once
...
I once had a very small infrared / PS/2 keyboard with a track ball
at the upper right corner, and the buttons on the upper left)
where middle finger and forefinger only had to be moved a bit, but
the heel of hand(s) could remain (only twisted a bit). That
allowed for pretty good precision and speed. But i think it was
still not that of Russ Cox and acme and external mouse/mice.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)