On 16/06/2024 11:53, D. Resor via cctalk wrote:
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The cursor key layout could have been laid out in a more user friendly way.
Don Resor
Not a huge amount different to most contemporary machines. Cursor keys
were notoriously unergonomic before the introduction of the inverted T
layout present on the DEC LK-201, which became the industry standard
keyboard layout after IBM copied it for the Model M. Basically every
home microcomputer that had cursor keys, had them inline with each other
in a very unintuitive layout.
I imagine that DEC likely weren't the first to come up with the inverted
T, even if they were the first to place it on it's own between the main
QWERTY section and the number pad (which is also unlikely). Is anyone
aware of earlier examples of the inverted T, or at least similar layouts
to the LK201? Josh Rice
