fedora and notebooks?

[John Summerfield]

Dean S. Messing wrote:

> I took think the pad is a wee bit sensitive to the touch when I'm
> banging away at the keyboard.  Sometimes my thumb will brush it and
> (at least w/in emacs) the "point" will just to where the cursor sits
> and I'm now entering text in the wrong place.  Thank goodness for the
> powerful "undo" features of emacs.   Solution: thumbs up!

Touchpads are misnamed; they don't require touch. There's some kind of 
proximity detector involved.


> 
> (I also learned to type on my mom's old Remington, with the green
> plastic keys.  What a great old piece of machinery!)

Imperials were rather popular in my youth. At the bank, at certain times 
of the day, we queued for the NCR full-keyboard adding machine. We 
became adept at adding in our head, two columns of digits at once. I 
started a week after we went to decimal currency, I have no idea how 
they managed LSD.



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Cheers
John

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