Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!unmvax!nmt.edu!john From: john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Optimal keyboards Message-ID: <1990Aug30.163436.17881@nmt.edu> Date: 30 Aug 90 16:34:36 GMT References: <1368@greek.csd.mot.com> <1990Aug29.204351.27673@nmt.edu> Organization: Zoological Data Processing Lines: 18 An earlier posting of mine expressed skepticism that a one-handed chord keyboard could make good speed. Mike Meyer (mwm@raven.pa.dec.com) responded: +-- | Try asking your local court reporter. They use chord | keyboards. They also keep up with the spoken word. I | think that's a bit faster than 120 wpm. +-- True, but that's a TWO-handed chord keyboard, and it also does not produce English. It produces a rather cryptic code that must be re-transcribed later into English. I have read that some Dvorak typists can take dictation at full speed. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber