> I would further suggest that someone accustomed to using a typewriter 
> (remember those?) or telephone is used to a similar action (key press) 
> producing a similar response (another letter appears on the page), 
> regardless of which finger is on which button/key.

Yes I remember typewriters (I must be old). Regardless of which finger
I use, each key produces a different result [1]. Now my mouse:
regardless of which finger I use, each key produces a different result.
My problem if I happened to have preferred fingers for each mouse
button. Nowhere does it say "middle finger", it always says "right
button". Incidentally, the action produced by each mouse button also
depends on the mouse pointer on the screen. New technology, new
functions.

> The failure of most of 
> us to understand this is one of the reasons that organisations like 
> SeniorNet prohibit us from tutoring.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you think I don't understand. Guess
that means seniornet won't let me tell a few oldies what a mouse is
now. (What's the story about them anyway?)

Volker

[1] let's not argue about the 2 shift keys

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