----------------------------------------------------------- date: 06/19/2024 subj: comment 06192024_110111 ----------------------------------------------------------- the past: 1930s long ago in the 1930s so many people were working with keyboards ... keyboards in the way they weren't called keyboards, they were typewriters. Today I like to call typewriters, printers, because they are all-in-one print press type machines. Anyway, all those people with their daily tasks with typewriters, I wonder how they felt about seeing those machines in and around the places they traversed. current times: 2020s so many people are using keyboards, and in the sense their has never been any requirement to have a printing device attached, but the daily tasks and lively- hood requirements of the device today (keyboard), must present some feeling for those who lay their hands and fingers over their work device daily. The world probably would hurt really bad if suddenly all the keyboards on the planent spontaneously combused. When I see the keybard on the typewriter, I get a warm feeling. When I see the various keyboards I use for my work, I think good thoughts, I wonder when the day will come when my clerical work on the keyboard like those from the past becomes just a memory in the minds of the few left around to talk about it. What will the people's new primary input device be, and what will they think when they see a relic of the past? random thoughts typed out! EOF