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From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor -> Keybords and fast typing?
Message-ID: <378@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 21:06:08 GMT
References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <Jun.5.02.10.06.1988.3586@constance.rutgers.edu> <1988Jun6.230840.2897@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
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In article <1988Jun6.230840.2897@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
->> This was done in the early days of manual typewriters to slow typists
->> down to a rate that the machine could handle without jamming.

->> ... See Devorak's work on
->> keyboard layouts for a detailed discussion on more reasonable
->> keyboard configurations.
->All independent attempts to verify Dvorak's claims have been unsuccessful.
->Improvements on the order of 10% are typical.  Useful, but not worth the
->pain of conversion.

If you want to go really fast you can use the Velotype. The Velotype
keyword has about 20 keys. The layout is so that you can use it 
without moving you hands. The speed up is that you type common groups
of letters by keying more keys at the same time. After 20 to 30
ours training you can use it faster than a standard keyboard.
Speedups off two to three times are common.

I have never used it and don't known of it is useful in a programmers
environment.

Henk Peek  ..!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp.UUCP