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mike knudsen  
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 More options Nov 26 1986, 6:06 pm
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From: knud...@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 18:06:58 EST
Local: Wed, Nov 26 1986 6:06 pm
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
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>    I don't consider the 33-ASR to be brain-damaged, and there will
> always be a fond place for it in my heart.  Consider these 33-ASR features:
>    [deleted]
> <>  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York

You left out one of the 33's best features -- you could
touch-type programming expressions on it, since such
left-field (nowadays) chars as \, [, ], ^ were just
shifts of N, L, K, etc.

Today this would be called a "chord keyboard."
Instead, you have to look at the keyboard constantly while
entering a C program.

Of course, the 33 didn't even have {}~, so you didn't have
to worry about them -- but then C didn't exist either!

--
Mike J Knudsen    ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen
Bell Labs (AT&T)   (312)-979-4132 (work)
You think AT&T cares about CoCos, music, or Star Trek?
No?  Then, these opinions must be all mine!


 
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