3 Sep
2002
3 Sep
'02
8:10 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Tapley wrote:
Freak :)
Who the hell
uses Dvorak?
Yo. Now this is *cool*!. Why didn't Apple include a
Dvorak keymapping with
the early Mac's, if they knew enough to do this in hardware with the
//c+? Oh well, it's in there now, and ElectricDvorak exists for the
earlier macs.
Apple //c too. And the //e (with a hardware mod) as we all recently
learned.
It does, fairly reliably, generate a 50% speed-up in
typing, with fewer
errors. My wife, a qwerty touch-typist who then learned dvorak touch,
reports that it does *not* interfere with qwerty touch-typing - she
switches from one to the other with the only symptom being that she
types about 30 seconds of gibberish before "locking in" on the new
layout. I can't report from personal experience, because I'm a qwerty
hunt-n-peck and dvorak touch. I'm at least 100% faster dvorak.
I prefer the Ismail Modified Accelerated Hunt and Peck Method.
;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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