Testify.
These
keyboards are
the spawn of the devil. In addition to the numerous concerns regarding
typing logistics that
mcc details above, there is a much more
subtle problem that effects the other half of
computer lab users, the ones who wouldn't have any idea what to do with the
pipe even if it were located more conveniently.
These keys
stick like a motherfucker.
Imagine the
consternation of the
lab techs when a distraught
user comes to the desk, aggravated and/or terrified because the printer won't stop spitting out
blank paper. Or when we're sitting peacefully at our desks and we hear the hum of the repeated,
pained beeping the computer produces when it thinks you maybe don't need quite that many
line breaks. Or when they come to us wailing that their
document is gone and their
cursor is
going crazy (which is what it looks like, in
Word, when the
enter key is depressed for a long time).
Some day, we'll get new keyboards. And on that day we will take all the keyboards with the L-shaped Enter key and run over them with
monster trucks.