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Article #89Re: M68060 Update
From: jake
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 09:01
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 09:01
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From article <1992Oct29.005429.5962@cubetech.com>, by andrew@cubetech.com:
> In article <Oct.26.23.16.47.1992.14956@gandalf.rutgers.edu> szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
> [lots of good stuff about how keyboards are bad for your hands deleted]
>
> Hey, there is something you can do that will help more than the new
> keyboard. The new keyboard is only slightly better when it comes to
> ergonomics. You still have the main problem - the QWERTY layout. You
> have to move your fingers around way too much.
>
> Get a dvorak layout and move the keys around on your current keyboard.
> It took me two weeks to get up to my QWERTY speed on DVORAK, and now I
> can type even faster. But now, my hands don't hurt since my fingers
> aren't moving around as much. Try it, you'll like it.
I second this heartily! I could never touch type until I switched to
Dvorak, and now I can really go. The reason that I couldn't t-t with
qwerty is the fact that I am missing some bits of finger from a boyhood
mishap.
It also cuts down on the number of people that want to use your machine!
>
>
> andrew
> --
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> Andrew Loewenstern | And the end of our exploring
> Cube Technologies, Inc. | Will be to arrive where we started
| And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
jake
--
Jason C. Breckenridge jake@skatter.usask.ca
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