At 11:33 AM 12/9/2004, you wrote:
>There's a big memory hole that's developing here. Am I the only
>one who remembers when IBM was the leading manufacturer of
>electric typewriters? Wasn't that office equipment, too?

Oh don't I know it, I learned to touch type on Selectrics while
taking a typing class after being frustrated from 5 years of hunt and peck typing. IBM Selectrics with no letters on the key
caps were used for tests. So you really learned to type.

Like someone mentioned in this thread a few messsages ago, the
original PC keyboard sucked partially to not cannibalize their
dedicated wordprocessor sales; they also didn't want to kill their (now dead? :-) typewriter division.