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- From: brian@king.csd.mot.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Typing on palmtops (was Re: Microwriter Chording Patents)
- Message-ID: <6863@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:32:09 GMT
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- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- >This sure is news to me. I find myself doing more and more text pounding on my
- >95 as time goes by. The keyboard does require adaptation, but far less than a
- >chord keyboard would [...]
-
- I found the Microwriter chord keyboard to be surprisingly easy to learn.
- A half hour and you have the alphabet. A couple of days and you're typing
- as fast as you can handwrite. Seriously, it's quite easy. I think you'll
- also find that it is *much* more comfortable to chord than to try to cram
- your fingers into a tiny QWERTY layout.
- --
- -Brian Smithson
- Motorola Inc., Computer Group, Commercial Systems Division
- 2001 Logic Drive, M/S 1-E10, San Jose, CA 95124 USA, (408)369-4104
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