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From: danoc@floyd.UUCP (Dan O'Connell)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: different keyboards
Message-ID: <2048@floyd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 23:26:56 EST
Article-I.D.: floyd.2048
Posted: Wed Feb 29 23:26:56 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 08:25:08 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Whippany NJ
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You say that you want to increase your daily productivity
by switching to an advanced keyboard like the Dvorak?  But
there are no major manufacturers that make one?  Especially for
your brand of micro or for your favorite mini?

Well, don't get your hopes up.  If any manufacturer had the guts to 
actually put such a keyboard into production, the complaints from 
typists the world over that "It's different!" would no doubt be so 
severe that Reagan would be forced to call out his 16-inch guns to 
level the company's headquarters.

How could any business in it's right mind even consider production of a 
keyboard so different as the apparently superior Dvorak when keyboard 
users complain so bitterly about a few keys here and there that are 
placed in a non-"standard" location?

By the way, what IS a standard computer terminal keyboard?
Where is it defined?  Is it a Selectric keyboard?  So where are the
Selectric's escape and control keys located?  Does the Selectric have
a tilde key?  Or is the standard the QWERTY layout?  The one that
was modified in the 1800's to make it more difficult for you to type?
Where did Sam Qwerty arrange HIS function keys?

I'll probably get hell for putting this in net.micro.   %-)>

Dan "Typing on my Rainbow keyboard with my eyes closed" O'Connell
AT&T Technologies @ AT&TBL Whippany NJ
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