Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!quintro!bpdsun1!rmf From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard Message-ID: <1990Nov13.190942.21986@bpdsun1.uucp> Date: 13 Nov 90 19:09:42 GMT References: <1941.273e9858@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Reply-To: rmf@bpdsun1.UUCP (Rob Finley) Organization: Harris Broadcast Div., Quincy, IL Lines: 47 In article Markd@Aus.Sun.COM writes: >herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > >>In article , greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery) writes: >>> I'm looking for anywhere I can get a Dvorak keyboard for my 386. If >>> anyone knows any manufacturers or sellers of them, please let me know. > >>I think Jerry Pournelle said that Northgate has one. All it takes is >>a different set of molded keytops. (I don't understand why Jerry >>likes the Northgate keyboards so much. I bot one and it doubles keys >>on me and does not have N-Key Rollover.) > >>If you don't have to have the names of the keys engraved on the >>keytops, PC-Write lets you remap the keyboard. So do various >>other programs. Hang a picture of the key layout on the wall >>and do the remapping in software. > >You don't mention which OS you're using but if it's UNIX/XENIX, there >are a variety of trivial ways to remap keystrokes. In Xenix there is a >keymap file and for Unix you could write a fairly trivial filter. > >You also may find that your keyboard lets you move the keys around by >gentle prying individual keys off. But check the actual method with >your keyboard manufacturer first, OK? My only hangup with that is the keycaps are beveled to match which row they are in originally. If you move them, the keycaps are slanted the wrong way and it feels awkward. Before you move the caps around (or take them all off B-), check to see if they all have the same physical shape. Fortunately, Northgate fixed it in almost the correct way by offering an alternate set of keycaps. Make sure that you can live with Northgate's lack of N-key rollover if you are a wild typist. You will go blind if you are and it doesn't. Keytronics used to make a keyboard that was born Dvorak but I don`t know if it follows the PS/2 format for fkeys and such. If that doesn't work. Get a Sun. B-) B-) B-) Keytronics made all the keycaps the same shape. Nope. Don't work for Sun. Now work for Harris. Not Sun. I do call this machine bpdsun1 though. Not sure why. quintro!bpdsun1!rmf@lll-winken.llnl.gov uunet!tiamat!quintro!bpdsun1!rmf