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From: benson@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Paul Benson)
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Subject: Re: Anybody remember the DVORAK keyboard layout?
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.061208.13032@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 06:12:08 GMT
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  To put your keyboard in Dvorak, just pop out the keys & replace 'em.  
  Assuming of course that you have set the hard/soft switch to make the
  keyboard bus return Dvorak keys.  Anyway, I would also have to argue
  against this, as some others have.  One of the main reasons for my
  learning Dvorak was to get out of my bad habits of looking at the
  keyboard.  This alone has increased my typing speed.  Anyway, you may
  connect another keyboard to the ADB.  There are 3 predefined devices
  for the ADB; a keyboard, a mouse, and a graphics tablet.  Each device
  gets its own address, so in the case of a collision (in my case two mice)
  the last one polled gets another address.  There are 16 addresses, but 5
  are reserved, one is preset for each of the three types of devices, and
  the rest may be allocated to any type of device.  So the max is 11 devices
  but you can only have 9 keyboards, or 9 mice, etc.  Doesn't there exist
  an ADB modem for the mac?  Also, it is possible to connect more than one
  mouse to the ADB because 3rd party vendors have 2 ADB ports on their
  products.  I don't think that a Y-connector is 'legal'.  It would work
  until a collision occured & then the bus would probably get confused.
  But with only 3 devices this should not be a problem.
  Pauley

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