From: Larry Colen
On 4/30/2010 2:22 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:06 , Larry Colen wrote:
>
>> My first attempt to use a mac was back in '84 or '85. At that time, on
>> any given day I might use four or five different keyboards: VT100,
>> Televideo, TRS80, TRS80-model 100, etc. and Likewise several different
>> operating systems: TRS80, CP/M, whatever was on the PDP-8, MSDOS.
>> Every single keyboard had the backspace key in a different place.
>> However, on every single computer, if I needed to backspace Ctrl-H
>> worked. Then I tried to use a Mac.
>
>
>
> I suspect that this is because everything you have mentioned was based
> on 1950-1970s technology. And the mindset that was and is somehow still
> prevalent in the world of computers that if it worked for grandpa why
> change it.
You could say the same thing about the qwerty keyboard.
For that matter, I'd love for very nasty things to happen to whoever
gratuitously moved the control key on the PC keyboard.
Intuitive is what you already know.
Manual typewriters didn't have a CTRL key, so it didn't matter much to
me where they put it. IBM PC has it almost the same area as the DEC
VT220 I first learned "keyboarding" on. Wasn't that big a deal to get
used to.
But now that I know where it is, I don't want 'em moving it again.
Took me a while to finally accept keyboards with Windoze keys. Still
don't use 'em much. And I still got old IBM click keyboards sans windoze
keys just in case.
Hell, I just figured out in the last month you don't have to
CTRL+ALT+DEL to get Task Manager any more, you just right click on the
task bar at the bottom in Vista.
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