Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!jeffd
From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Alternative Keyboards
Summary: Possibilities
Message-ID: <2739@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Jan 89 11:53:31 GMT
References: <2717@ficc.uu.net> <984@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <984@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, Chris Bogart writes:

> 
> The Apple //c's keyboard is switchable to Dvorak ...
>  I did that once, and re-learned to type
> in Dvorak. ... 
> Then one day I had to use the terminals in the computer center, because the
> modems were down. ...  I could no longer type qwerty, and had to hunt
> and peck.  To switch to Dvorak, we would have to change all the keyboards
> everywhere at the same time, because the average typist probably couldn't
> learn to switch back and forth very easily.  I finally switched my apple
> back to qwerty.

Two possible solutions here.  One would be a keyboard that translated
one's Dvorak keying into qwerty for the computer's benefit.  The other
would be a program that would let the computer accept either.  

As stated earlier, if someone wants to provide the funding, I'll
provide the PR.  Is there also someone to provide the programming/
engineering?  Let get rich!


Jeff Daiell



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