From: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
Cc: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 13:35:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <608A2539-B777-4243-B8A4-483B98297FAC@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221102122432.og3EI%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
My elementary school teacher recommended to my mother that she buy me a typewriter and I took typing in summer school. Little did we know being able to type 60wpm would end up being.
> On Nov 2, 2022, at 05:24, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
>
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
> <20221102121352.MhcLw%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
> |steve jenkin wrote in
> | <E212D205-B786-4441-A95B-B5F5546B5C6C@canb.auug.org.au>:
> | ...
> ||I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills with the people of \
> ||the CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?
> |
> |What i personally find more fascinating (given that -- in the
> |right condition -- i type pretty fast even in total darkness but
> |darkest possible monitor brightness) is the multitaskability some
> |show, in respect to combination of mouse and keyboard (or even
> |dual-mouse if i remember a message of Rob Pike right). I once
> ...
>
> I once had a very small infrared / PS/2 keyboard with a track ball
> at the upper right corner, and the buttons on the upper left)
> where middle finger and forefinger only had to be moved a bit, but
> the heel of hand(s) could remain (only twisted a bit). That
> allowed for pretty good precision and speed. But i think it was
> still not that of Russ Cox and acme and external mouse/mice.
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 2:36 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-11-02 6:53 ` [TUHS] " Michael Kjörling
2022-11-02 7:11 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-02 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 21:51 ` Stuff Received
2023-08-05 23:53 ` scj
2023-08-06 0:22 ` KenUnix
2023-08-06 0:43 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 14:51 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-08-06 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 16:31 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 18:20 ` Jon Forrest
2023-08-07 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2023-08-06 8:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-02 12:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 12:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 20:35 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2022-11-02 12:26 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-02 13:07 ` Larry Stewart
2022-11-02 13:16 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-02 13:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 19:01 ` jason-tuhs
2022-11-02 19:20 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-03 1:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-03 1:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-03 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 15:17 ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-03 16:18 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 17:02 ` John Cowan
2022-11-03 19:36 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-03 20:01 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-02 12:16 Douglas McIlroy
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