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OverTheHill Oh yes! For me it's a mixture of older eyes still, and needing to handle sprawls of information such as time-tables, spread-sheets and CAD drawings.
My typing was always rough so I need a proper keyboard. Some years ago, at work, I helped catalogue hundreds of formal documents, using a spreadsheet on a lap-top. I found it a real trial, though it was eased a bit by standing the computer on a closed ring-binder to put it at a more comfortable angle.
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On which, here's a thing.....
For centuries, people used sloping writing-desks, or portable writing-slopes that could be put on a flat table; to make hand-writing much more comfortable. The traditional school desk was similarly sloped; but as far back as pre-printing Mediaeval times, the abbey
scriptoria were similarly equipped for the monks and nuns hand-copying long texts including the Bible. Perhaps they had discovered that using a flat desk for some hours a day, day after day, led ultimately to muscle problems.
So why, quite quickly in the 20C but well before the PC or "smart"-'phone, was the writing-slope suddenly rejected right, left and centre in favour of universally level surfaces? It's almost as if the wheel, having proven its worth over millennia, was suddenly discarded in favour of some strange alternative geometry, maybe like the rounded heptagon that is the British 50p coin!
