ObNotAdventure You are in a maze of twisty keyboards, all different.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of
Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 1:58 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OSMF
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?
>
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> 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-----
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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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