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From: edward@pro-harvest.cts.COM (Edward Floden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Dvorak Keycaps?
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Date: 20 Nov 89 17:57:38 GMT
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> Wasn't there a TV commercial a few years back for the Apple //c with some
> lady who was a real speed typist?  She was talking about "130 words per
> minute" speeds and that her //c had no problem catching up with her.  Was
> she using Dvorak?

I don't recall the commercial, but the woman (Barbara <something>) does use a
Dvorak key arrangement (and coincidentally, so do I). The //c has an external
switch to reconfigure the keyboard. I'm not sure if the //c keycaps are
interchangeable, as I don't have one to experiment with, but I think that they
might be -- I don't think that the //c keyboard is "sculptured", as the IIe
and IIgs keyboards are.

BTW, did you know that a Dvorak layout exists in the ROM of the IIe? The
layout isn't entirely correct (three keys are mislocated), but it's there. I
modified my IIe to access the layout; that's when I started using Dvorak
instead of Qwerty (aka Sholes).

:Edward

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