From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Typing tutors
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:38:30 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2102070930110.70858@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ffbcab8-b651-c3f9-d4ed-e9ff792cfde6@mhorton.net>
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> I learned on a manual typewriter in 7th grade, but I got fast on a
> keypunch. To this day i don't use the right shift key, because it didn't
> work on a keypunch.
The 026 (ugh!), or the 029?
> At Berkeley, everybody was already a touch typist. That's why vi
> commands emphasize lower case letters, especially hjkl which are right
> under the home position. The original reason for hjkl was the ADM3A, but
> when I added arrow key support to vi and disabled the hardcoded hjkl, a
> line of grad students made me put it back.
I'm not surprised :-) We were all playing "rogue" back then. And my
favourite terminal was indeed the ADM-3A; it just seemed to be designed
for Unix, with the ESC key in the right place etc.
I still loathe the VT-220...
-- Dave, a fast two-finger typist (but with pinkie on RETURN)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-06 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 2:57 Will Senn
2021-02-06 16:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:22 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 17:33 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-06 17:47 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-06 18:06 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-06 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-02-06 22:47 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-02-07 0:25 ` John Cowan
2021-02-08 22:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 22:58 ` David Barto
2021-02-08 23:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-07 17:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-07 19:28 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-07 21:32 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-07 23:17 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-07 23:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 0:56 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-08 5:15 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-02-08 5:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-08 15:54 ` Will Senn
2021-02-08 5:29 ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-08 20:41 ` Andrew Newman
2021-02-06 18:56 ` David Barto
2021-02-08 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-09 16:29 ` Mary Ann Horton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-06 2:15 [TUHS] I just noticed all the cfont aka C++ in research Jason Stevens
2017-04-06 2:20 ` Noel Hunt
2017-04-06 2:21 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-06 6:57 ` [TUHS] Unix emacs at Bell Labs and elsewhere Erik E. Fair
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