People use to complain when I printed 88 lines per page (8 LPI instead of 6);
later on, with laser printers, I always used smaller fonts than my colleagues
liked.
As for lacktops (sic), my biggest complaint is the keyboard. Why is it no
longer possible to buy a laptop with a standard AT or converged key layout, a
mini trackball and the keys at the front of the keyboard?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bob
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Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 10:58 AM
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Apparently I used to have really high-resolution eyesight, judging by the
comments of coworkers ("How can you read that?!"); not so much any more. I now
keep around two types of reading classes, a weaker broad-eye set for reading my
monitor at arm's length and slightly stronger granny glasses for reading up
close. Haven't tried bifocals yet.
Or have I? I now work at home, and sometimes at my desk I wear them both at
the same time rather than switching back and forth. Then I stand up and get
the door, or join a Teams meeting, and someone is quizzical about the fact that
I seem to be wearing two sets of glasses at once, I having forgotten about
them. It eventually dawned on me that with broad glasses covering my field of
vision and granny glasses at the bottom, that ~is~ bifocals in a sense. Maybe
if Ben Franklin had tried that he wouldn't have invented real bifocals.
(Somebody else probably would have, though.)
But as my eyes deteriorate I'm going to have to go to an optometrist
eventually; no telling what he'll make me wear, and I suspect I'll wonder then
why I can magically see again and why in the world I waited so long.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
/* It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others. -John Andrew Holmes */
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David Purdy
Sent: Sunday, July 2, 2023 21:59
Second best investment was bifocals cut for 18" monitor and closer for reading.
Ergonomics again...the neck was grateful and more relaxed at the end of a day.
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