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Whatever the reason, I think it was the high actuation force of the IBM keyboard. I don't really slouch. I did not hover my arms and I really don't want to all the time, but I had a pretty good wrist pillow, two "Sun The Network is the Computer" pads adhered together, so my angles probably weren't as bad as you imagine.

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Any kind of wrist “support” will severely limit your movement range. If you don’t slouch it should be easy to just bring the keyboard closer to your body, to the edge of the desk. I’ve made a sketch in case it helps: http://svgur.com/s/7e6

Or see this piano posture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0

Around 6:03–6:06 you can see the type of finger flexing chiclet keyboards and wrist pads encourage.

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