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From: pizza@leland.Stanford.EDU (Pete Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Chording and other alternative keyboards
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.223636.19404@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Jun 91 22:36:36 GMT
References: <221@eclectic.COM>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <221@eclectic.COM> kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) writes:
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>  My typing style seems to be making a mess out of my fingers.

	etc etc etc

I have been a strong advocate of the Dvorak keyboard since I "converted" a 
year or 2 ago.  Highly highly recommended.  My fingers used to hover in the 
air over the keyboard like vultures and now I'm much more relaxed.  Plus
you sure as heck learn to _really_ touchtype when the wrong letters are on 
the keys...  If you're interested I hacked a KCHR resource that you can 
paste into you System file which will reconfigure your standard QWERTY keyboard
into Dvorak in software.  The wrong letters are on the keys but as I said it 
improves your style after you suffer.  Actually, thanks to some foresight at
Apple, if you past the resource into your system file a new rectangle comes up
in the Control panel Keyboard cdev allowing you to switch back and forth.
Nifty!  Anyway I again really recommend the Dvorak-- the only big big minus is
dealing with Command key shortcuts that are hardwired into your brain. Undo/
Cut/Copy/Paste needs to be changed to Command- ; Q J K from Z X C V... Also
dealing with QWERTYs again is kind of a pain if you move around.

		Happy typing...
		Pete Richards
		crunge@angelo.stanford.edu