[RTTY] Point-and-click vs typing

[joeduerbusch]

Hi Tim and all.  It was great to see the pictures of the model 15 & 32.
I was a Radioman in the Navy 1966-1970 and started college in 1970.  I got
a part-time job with a import/export company and worked 3 PM to 7 PM 5 days
a week for 5 years cutting tape on a model 28ASR or a Model 32ASR.(Telex).
It was easy for me to transition to my first ham teletype a model15 KSR. Hi
Hi.
Been on RTTY since 1975.

Joe K0BX


On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> W4GKM writes:
> > I just got in on this posting, what is the advantage of the Happy Hacker
> keyboard?
>
> For the most fervent keyboardists, never taking the hands off the home
> position is important. Anything that involves moving hands over to arrow
> keys or numeric keypad or mouse or (on many keyboards) to the function keys
> introduces delays and reduces rate.
>
> At same time, for someone who is not a fervent touch-typist, and prefers
> hitting one of a big bank of function keys, or the arrow keys, or numeric
> keypad keys, or prefers using the mouse, they could be at a disadvantage
> with a simpler keyboard optimized for touch-typing.
>
> I suspect only a tiny tiny fraction of population is fervent enough to go
> for the Happy Hacker or similar keyboards. Certainly if (like most RTTY
> users here) you spend a lot of time pointing and clicking on mouse and
> prefer that over the keyboard, the Happy Hacker keyboard is probably not
> the best thing!
>
> I'm actually a little surprised at the responses to my impromptu survey.
> When I started on RTTY 30+ years ago, mastery of the keyboard was pretty
> important. (Not that they funky green-keys layout was by any means a
> standard keyboard to begin with!). And today most of us hardly use the
> keyboard at all!
>
> Some classic green key layouts. I learned on a Model 32 but got to use the
> Model 15 a few times. The happy hacker keyboard's minimal number of keys,
> is the closest modern equivalent I know of to real green key layouts:
>
> Model 15:
>
> http://www.galleyrack.com/images/artifice/telegraphy/tty-stuff/cr-tty/tty-15-ksr-213102/intro/tty15-no2-9001-keyboard-top-clean-crop-2992x2412.jpg
>
> Model 32:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Telex_machine_ASR-32.jpg
>
> Tim N3QE
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