Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site floyd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!burl!clyde!floyd!danoc 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 Lines: 31 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 floyd!danoc