Correct angle for keyboard

Osiris wrote:

On 26 Jul 2006 19:14:38 -0700, wrote:

correct mouse is also important. I prefer a relatively flat
mouse. Some mice are so rounded in the middle that they're just
uncomfortable for me to use.

Maybe because your wrist is bent up too much ? there is a
relation, maybe, with the keyboard slope...

Others may prefer that type. The thing is there's no
such thing as one size fits all.

Nope: we are privileged to have some choice.

Keyboard slope, prosthetics, and all that stuff might help, but it
won't stop repetitive strain injury (RSI).

The only RSI killer is speech-recognition.

Good luck.

H. Seldon wrote
Trev wrote

How on earth did those typists manage with three hights of keys, no wrist pads and
having to put even force behind the key's.

In those days, people who wanted to become 'clerk typists' actually
went to school to learn the craft. As part of the required course
material, ergonomic work methods were taught. These people learned
what furniture (chairs and tables etc) was best suited to the job and
as well, they were taught basic things such as correct posture and
how to always use the center of the keyboard as the rest/start point.
This prevented the hands from having to travel all over the keyboard.

No it didnt.

On modern computer keyboards these are the F and J keys.

Those dont get used enough to matter ergonomically.

And the numeric pad is a big improvement on the traditional
typewriter keyboard number system ergonomically too.

Untrained people suffered the same so-called syndromes as most untrained computer
keyboard users suffer today.

Doesnt have a damned thing to do with 'training'

And most of the 'training' with traditional typewriters was involved
with minimising errors, not with the ergonomics anyway.

The properly trained person could go to the office and work a full 8
hours with minimal discomfort, in general, while untrained persons
would be lucky if they could type continuously for 30 minutes without severe pain
especially around the neck and shoulders.

You're massively confusing getting used to it with training.

The same courses should be required today, for people who use keyboards continuously
all day long, minus the hard whacking of the keys. :-)

Mindlessly silly.

And irrelevant to what is being discussed, THE ANGLE OF THE KEYBOARD.

Good luck.


thank you.

And irrelevant to what is being discussed, THE ANGLE OF THE KEYBOARD.


it is called the SLOPE of the keyboard, silly jester.
See ISO 9241-4.
Keyboards have too many angles for that to be an adequate term in
this.
Slope is a word used to indicate a rotation about a horizontal axis,
which is meant here. As in the slope of a hill or other unevenness in
the terrain, or like in:
"Roddy's mind is sliding down a slippery SLOPE at high speed."

"Angle" could mean a rotation about ANY axis (2 horizontal, 1
vertical, eg.).
Another meaning might be the Miccosoft keyboard where the left and
right halves are angled towards the position of the elbow.
It is this feature that makes the term "angle" somewhat obscure. So if
you could keep the issue clear, I would like to ask you to use the
term SLOPE.

don't pay too much attention to Roddy: he's the group clown.
His mental inadequacies in real life make him come here for social
recognition.
bear with him.

Osiris wrote:

And irrelevant to what is being discussed, THE ANGLE OF THE KEYBOARD.

it is called the SLOPE of the keyboard, silly jester.

Pity about the subject line, child.

See ISO 9241-4.

Doesnt mandate a particular slope, child.

Keyboards have too many angles for that to be an adequate term in this.

Tell the OP, child.

Slope is a word used to indicate a rotation about a horizontal axis,
which is meant here. As in the slope of a hill or other unevenness in
the terrain, or like in:
"Roddy's mind is sliding down a slippery SLOPE at high speed."

"Angle" could mean a rotation about ANY axis (2 horizontal, 1 vertical, eg.).

Tell the OP, child.

Another meaning might be the Miccosoft keyboard where the left
and right halves are angled towards the position of the elbow.
It is this feature that makes the term "angle" somewhat obscure. So if
you could keep the issue clear, I would like to ask you to use the
term SLOPE.

You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly
irrelevant, child. What you might or might not like in spades.

Rod Speed wrote:

Snipped bull****

You truly are a *stupid* ****wit aren't you??

plonk

Osiris wrote:

snip

bear with him.

Nah, I don't think so. Lack of knowledge I can obviously understand and
abide. *Arrogant* stupidity? That's another story.

Some pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist claiming to be
H. Seldon desperately attempted to bull**** its
way out of its predicament, and fooled absolutely no one at all, as always.
Rod Speed wrote:

Snipped bull****

You truly are a *stupid* ****wit aren't you??

plonk

Fat lot of good that will ever do you, child.

the critical length of a copper wire is about 4.5 km, defining
critical as breaking by its own weight. (yes, it is independent of
it's cross section)

Defining the critical length of a thread as the number of follow-up
messages, until people start to swear, call names, be stupid, or
divert from the original issue in general:

What is the critical length of a newsgroup thread ?
I vote 20.