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grids:
Small keyboards need more keys.
Large keyboards need to be smaller.
Mandan:
--- Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Fri, 14 June 2024, 10:51:31 ---Pipe is an alpha and so is tilda. Color them appropriately.
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My IBM boards are all that way from the factory.
--- Quote ---If your thumbs rest on the spacebar between V-M why does it need to be larger (I noticed my keyboard is 6.25U spacebar).
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Witness! The standard Japanese format got that right.
According to an article on Xah Lee's web site:
--- Quote ---the typist suggested that two space keys be installed, one at each side of the keyboard, and given lips projecting inward, to make them easier to hit.
Densmore liked this idea so well that he wrote repeatedly to Milwaukee demaning that it be put into effect. Accordingly, Sholes directed Schwalbach to fashion the key buttons with lateral extensions, but when Glidden saw them he saked: “Why not join the two and have a single flat piece extending all the way across?” Thus originated the space bar …
- the typewriter and the men who made Them 1871 By Richard Nelson Current
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So the answer is "because the spacebar has always been that way." [sigh] Lee has some pictures of old typewriters with one or two small space keys.
If I ever built my own keyboard, I'd put a TrackPoint and a couple of mouse buttons in the middle, and a 1.5u space key on each side of that.
Fraaaan:
--- Quote from: grids on Wed, 19 June 2024, 03:41:27 ---Small keyboards need more keys.
Large keyboards need to be smaller.
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Grass should be bluer and the sea should be greener.
Evolurkeeb:
Agree
bkrownd:
Cherry profile is a lemon.
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