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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: How do you do DVORAK?
Message-ID: <10066@claris.com>
Date: 4 May 89 02:49:52 GMT
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <8905030758.AA17421@crash.cts.com>, by edward@pro-harvest.UUCP (System Administrator):
> keyboard.  So I decided to chuck the entire idea, and I've been typing for
> two and a half years now on a Dvorak-layout keyboard with Qwerty-layout
> keys.  Since I don't need to look at the keys when I type, I don't have any
> problems.  The only trouble occurs when a Qwerty typist attempts to use my
> machine: they complain that my computer is screwing up.  I tell them that
> they're witnessing the wave of the future. :)

When I first started working on a GS, I discovered the Dvorak layout option.
I decided to learn it.  I ended up Xeroxing the layout from whatever manual
it appears in, enlarging it, cutting out keys & taping them to my keyboard.
As soon as I knew where the keys were (but still had to think about it), I
took them off & cleaned the keyboard with alcohol :-).  After a while, I
got up to about 1/2 or 2/3 my QWERTY speed, I gave it up because I had
severe problems when typing on a QWERTY keyboard.

-- 
Scott Lindsey     |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air
Claris Corp.      |    About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare"
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wombat@claris.com |    StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or dead.