10-11 in laptops generally have 90% keyboard without numeric keyboard.. 13-15 in laptops generally have 100% keyboard without numeric keyboard. 17 in + laptops generally have 100% keyboard with numeric keyboard.
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 10:40 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > 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? > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of > Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 10:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OSMF > > 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. > > --- > 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 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN