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- From: jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen)
- Subject: Typing on the AgendA (was Typing on chord keyboards)
- Reply-To: jeremiah@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:56:46 +0000
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- In: <6863@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Brian Smithson said:
- > 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.
-
- This is what most of the regular AgendA/Microwriter users find.
- As I have said before, the basic alphabet took me about 20 minutes,
- and from then on it is only practive to build up speed. We have
- hundreds of testimonial letters all along these lines:
-
- "I didn't take your claims seriously until I tried it ..."
-
- Now, if we were just selling some of those diet schemes :-)
-
- Jonathan
-