QWERTY/Dvorak (was //c+ switch settings)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Sep 4 00:10:04 2002

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Tapley wrote:

> >Who the hell uses Dvorak?
>
> Yo.

Freak :)

> 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.

;)

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