[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

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Wed Nov 10 15:01:49 EST 2010


In article <112dc77f-3185-48ad-9a16-c23873cfcee0 at a30g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes:
>On Nov 10, 11:25 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> It would be nice if people would just rediscover that key on the
>> right side of the QWERTY keyboard that had traditionally caused
>> the typewriter carriage to travel to the right. ;)
>
>Traditionally it was not a key, but a lever on the left. The Return
>key is a newfangled contraption. Like the "1" key. Small "l" was
>good enough for Jesus so it should be good enough for anybody. And
>where did they put the Tab Set key?

Having suffered typing all of my college papers on an old Underwood
mechanical typewriter, I know there was no carriage return key on it.
My wife, several years my junion, arrived at college with an electric
which did have a key for the carriage.  What I novel idea.  I didn't
know Jesus used a typewritter. :P

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