Keyboards

[ffutures]

Keyboards have been much on my mind recently - I thought I was going to have to replace my favourite, used another for a couple of months and found that my speed and accuracy plummeted, and have now managed to get the old one working again.


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My preference is for keyboards without function keys. I never use the stupid things; they demand memorization. I still have horrid memories of my first encounter with a word processing program, Word for DOS, in which the only way to do anything was to remember what function key to use for what command; it was so frustrating that I swore never to use a word processor again. Then I discovered the Macintosh interface, many generations earlier.

My keyboard has function keys, but I haven't touched them in years. Happily, I still don't have to.