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Subject: Re: How do you do DVORAK?
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Date: 2 May 89 15:09:01 GMT
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Network Comment: to #363 by obsolete!sk2f+%andrew.cmu.edu

obsolete!sk2f+%andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh) writes:
>Subject: How do you do DVORAK?
>
>keys in the back of the users guide.  Are we supposed to put labels over
>our keycaps?  I tried taking the keycaps off the keyboard, and
>
> -seth
>  sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu
>tHe mAd ScienTisT, and other carnations.  On tour in a city near you.  I
>have a headache.

I had the same problem, long ago.  I discovered that there was a Dvorak layout
in the ROMs of my IIe, and I found a wiring mod that allowed me to access it. 
But until I got my IIgs, I didn't practice typing on the Dvorak very much;
then I bought _Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!_ and now I'm a fair typist on
Dvorak, in fact I keep my keyboard set to it all the time.

I tried to rearrange the keycaps, but ran into that problem that they were
sculptured and couldn't be repositioned with gaining a really weird-feeling
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. :)

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