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From: freewill@nstar.UUCP (Bill Williston)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Efficient Keyboards
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Date: 13 Oct 90 01:32:19 GMT
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A co-worker tells me that the keyboards used in the USA are less efficient 
than keyboards used in the rest of the world....ON PURPOSE!  Apparently, 
typists fingers move fast enough to jam manual typewriters.  Solution: make 
a keyboard that is harder to use.  Think about it.  A and E are both 
actuated by fingers on the left hand; pinky and ring finger respectively.

Could one of you who lives in an area where efficient keyboards are the 
standard put the keys on the screen?  I teach wordprocessing and would be 
interested in trying a more effiecient letter-layout.  Thank you in advance. 
 FYI the USA key layout is: QWERTYUIOP[]
                            ASDFGHJKL;'
                            ZXCVBNM,./         :)