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12-24-2003 02:17 AM ET (US)
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New pens always get the endless squiggle test until the ink begins to flow.
As for testing out keyboards, I will try each one at Best Buy out, typing complete nonsense (such as "ajfoafnoiea fanfoirai") to get the feel of the keyboard. I'm kind of picky about the way my keyboards feel under my fingers. They have to be just so.
Although I wouldn't mind having a laptop, I have to admit that they have the WORST keyboards. They are shallow and somewhat lacking in punch.
I was looking at this enormous Toshiba with a 17" wide screen, and you'd think that since they made the whole casing of the laptop so huge they could have at least made the keyboard for said case much larger. You really would...
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12-22-2003 03:31 PM ET (US)
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Edited by author 12-22-2003 03:33 PM
This just in from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations:
ATTRIBUTION: Author unknown. Sentence devised to test the speed of the first typewriter, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, fall of 1867, during “an exciting political campaign.”—Charles E. Weller, The Early History of the Typewriter, p. 21 (1918).
Other sources credit Weller as author of the famous sentence, but he does not claim the credit in his book. The sentence is still in use, though it is often written as “their” party.
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