I use Feedly and Reeder on my Mac and iPhone to read news, rumor sites and hacker culture Every. Single. Day. With RSS I can skim through 27-odd pages full of news in a fraction of the time I would take otherwise.
Indispensable.
+1 on the Kinesis. My Advantage has it on the right and that's the way I was taught in high school typing class as well. It's a longer reach but it's in the same 'column' as the Y, H and N and therefore the right hand.
You can't forget about Kinesis's Contour. The weirdest yet most comfortable keyboard I've ever used. (Looked weird enough that MIB used it as Zed's keyboard at the office.) Saved me from carpel tunnel surgery about 5 years ago and I"m pain free to this day. http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm A little pricy ($300) but much cheaper than surgery.
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Long ago making an "archival backup" of your 5.25" copy protected disk required more voodoo than science. Many times a copy wouldn't take no matter what parameters or copy program you used. The trick that I used was to carefully turn the media inside the envelope until a small hole in the media lined up with a hole in the envelope. This was used by some old Schugart(sp?) mechanisms to synchronize the read head to the media. The Apple ][ mechanism didn't use this method and the hole was completely ignored. By lining up the hole in the source and the destination disk and then making the copy, it would work.
Knesis does have a USB version. I have been using it for nearly 5 years now and would use none other. It works great on my Mac and any other system with a USB port. Plus it has programmable keys so you can remap the thumb keys to suit yourself.
As others have said, $300 is *chump change* compared to RSI surgery! No other keyboard even comes close!
I have a Tom Brain Cell slip case for my TiBook that then fits very neatly in my trusty old Lands' End Blue canvas bag. A whole lot less inviting than some expensive looking laptop case.
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It was a dataflow language back in the early 90's. I think I still have the floppies and manuals for it somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I use Feedly and Reeder on my Mac and iPhone to read news, rumor sites and hacker culture Every. Single. Day. With RSS I can skim through 27-odd pages full of news in a fraction of the time I would take otherwise. Indispensable.
+1 on the Kinesis. My Advantage has it on the right and that's the way I was taught in high school typing class as well. It's a longer reach but it's in the same 'column' as the Y, H and N and therefore the right hand.
Anybody remember Prograph? I actually owned it. Amazingly enough, it lives on in a product called Marten.
You can't forget about Kinesis's Contour. The weirdest yet most comfortable keyboard I've ever used. (Looked weird enough that MIB used it as Zed's keyboard at the office.) Saved me from carpel tunnel surgery about 5 years ago and I"m pain free to this day. http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm A little pricy ($300) but much cheaper than surgery.
Long ago making an "archival backup" of your 5.25" copy protected disk required more voodoo than science. Many times a copy wouldn't take no matter what parameters or copy program you used. The trick that I used was to carefully turn the media inside the envelope until a small hole in the media lined up with a hole in the envelope. This was used by some old Schugart(sp?) mechanisms to synchronize the read head to the media. The Apple ][ mechanism didn't use this method and the hole was completely ignored. By lining up the hole in the source and the destination disk and then making the copy, it would work.
They are all silent or virtually so.
Knesis does have a USB version. I have been using it for nearly 5 years now and would use none other. It works great on my Mac and any other system with a USB port. Plus it has programmable keys so you can remap the thumb keys to suit yourself.
As others have said, $300 is *chump change* compared to RSI surgery! No other keyboard even comes close!
-- Dan
Sorry about that, had to. Later, Dan