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From: wdc@mit-eddie.UUCP (William Cattey)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Track balls and other devices for a right-handed world
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 00:45:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 00:45:11 1984
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	You pose a difficult question.  Things like scissors are
obviously left or right hand specific.  Typewriter keyboards put 
all the most common characters in the hardest to type places, but
people seem to be able to struggle and learn the keyboard after a while.
I found it interesting that Dvorjak (please excuse spelling here)
keyboards were only percentages better rather than orders of magnitude
better than qwerty keyboards.

	I am left handed and I was thinking of putting a track ball into
a keyboard I am building for myself.  I was going to put it on my
right precisely BECAUSE I am left handed.  In that way, I could keep
"my smart hand" on the keyboard while I move my cursor around.
I would rather type with one hand with my left hand, are you *sure*
that you object to it going on the right?

	Bill Cattey
	wdc%oz@mit-mc   or   wdc%eddie@mit-mc   (arpa)
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