Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!drake%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: drake%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: re: Different keyboards Message-ID: <574@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 04:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.574 Posted: Mon Mar 5 04:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Apr-84 07:29:01 EST Lines: 18 From: David Drake So what's to stop companies from producing Dvorak keyboards AS WELL AS Qwerty? Why not let the buyer decide what she/he wants? And why not make both available as products of their own right, so if you don't like what you originally bought (and you have the $$$), you can go back and buy the *other* keyboard? How can that be anything but profitable to the company making computers? I hope, though, that companies don't start packaging computers with only one variety of keyboard, while at the same time selling the new-and- improved keyboard which replaces the one you HAVE to buy! "So you say you want to buy a car...but, what's this...you want ROUND wheels? Well that's going to cost extra!" Maybe, someday, companies will learn that there's an HONEST profit to be made in selling what customers really want to buy -- the next step in Burger-King philosophy! Cheers, David Drake%UMass-CS