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From: andyt@kontron.UUCP (Andy Thornton)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Different style of Keyboards (Was Contempt prior to Investigation)
Message-ID: <651@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 14:12:14 EST
Article-I.D.: kontron.651
Posted: Tue Mar 25 14:12:14 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 13:41:03 EST
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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under the spreading UN*X tree the village programmer sits....

There are a WHOLE BUNCH of different keyboards availible.  Dvorak keyboards
are availible for anyone who wants to take the, small amount, of trouble to
find and buy one.  They are more expensive because they are not popular.  
New keyboard layouts are being designed all the time, BYTE magazine a while
back had an article on an experimental IBM keyboard, the durn thing looked
like it had been melted.  There was also a text entry device that was a hemi-
sphere that your hand rested on.  There were only 5 keys and several words
had also been programmed into the ROM.  Speed increases were horrific!  All
it took was a 6 week course to retrain.  These are availible, at increased
prices.  QWERTY keyboards were specificily designed to slow down typists
because the mechanical typewriters could not keep up with human fingers.
(We're talking cicra 1880's here.)

One should take the 2 and 1/2 minutes to investigate something before filling
the air with misinformation.
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The above is a note of personal irriatation: Kontron, my plants, Edgar
Cayce, or the Society for Bogus Research should be held reponsible.