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In article <3771@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, weaver@spdcc (Read Weaver) writes:
> In article <Jul.15.19.50.08.1989.17361@topaz.rutgers.edu> shoopak@topaz.rutgers.edu (Maverick) writes:
> >Does anybody know the layout for the "Dovarac (sp?)" keyboard?
> >
> >It was before QWERTY, but too fast for manuals.
> 
> Hmm.  I don't think it was before qwerty, but yes, qwerty was designed
> specifically to slow down typists (because the early machines jammed).

QWERTY came long before Dvorak.

Yes, QWERTY was designed to slow down typists to prevent them from jamming
the machines.  (It doesn't fulfill that purpose, though:  I can jam a manual
typewriter.)  Oddly enough, some keys very often pressed in sequence are
located next to each other (_e.g._, `e' and `r', `i' and `o').

So why aren't we all typing on Dvorak keyboards today, now that we have
computer terminals that don't ``jam''?  Old habits die hard....  Alas,
alack....

> I've used the Dvorak layout for about a year and like it (tho' I haven't
> found the rave testimonials to be borne out in my experience).  (Too
> bad it doesn't help with sentence structure.)  ("It" meaning keyboard
> layout.)  (Someone stop me.)

(My [frequent] nested parentheses [and brackets (and parentheses within
brackets [and....])] aren't much better....)

> The layout:  (wish me luck).
> 
> /  ,  .  P  Y  F  G  C  R  L
>  A  O  E  U  I  D  H  T  N  S  ;
>   '  Q  J  K  X  B  M  W  V  Z
> 
> The shifted characters are  /-?  '-"  ;-:
> The top row stays the same
  ??????????????????????????
> The extra keys on computer keyboards stay the same (or change if you want)

Does it really?  I'm pretty sure that it looks something like

	9 7 5 3 1 2 4 6 8 0

But I leave it as is on my Dvorak set-up (as well as the other punctuation
marks, which are supposed to be in different positions from their QWERTY ones):
since mine is the only DSK terminal that I use, I might as well modify it as
I please....

					--Scott

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