On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:10:04PM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:36:33PM -0000, Ivor Williams wrote: > > At one previous employer, I remember a few supposedly ergonomic keyboards > > which were QWERTY, but split in the middle into two halves at an angle. I > > found these keyboards impossible to use. > > The first Microsoft Natural Keyboard was typically broken in usual MS > fashion. They had got the angle of the two sides right so as to reduce > wrist strain, but then put a convex curve across the rows of keys, forward > to back, effectively moving the keys further apart, forcing you to stretch > further to reach them. > > The second version a year or so later fixed this problem and is much nicer > to use. Must be the only Microsoft product I've ever recommended.
If you like trackballs, I would definitely recommend the MS optical trackball (which works fine with Mac OS X but not at all with XFree86). nic -- love is the shit that makes life bloom
