7 Feb
2021
7 Feb
'21
4:38 a.m.
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I
got fast on a
keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't
work on a keypunch.
The 026 (ugh!), or the 029?
At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist.
That's why vi
commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right
under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but
when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a
line of grad students made me put it back.
I'm not surprised :-) We were all playing "rogue" back then. And my
favourite terminal was indeed the ADM-3A; it just seemed to be designed
for Unix, with the ESC key in the right place etc.
I still loathe the VT-220...
-- Dave, a fast two-finger typist (but with pinkie on RETURN)