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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.192444.3751@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL
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- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:24:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.152015.11481@cc.gatech.edu> duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan) writes:
- >In article <1ihgdgINNhpm@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
- >>Just think: Who would consider designing a typewriter to hinder typists?
- >> Maybe you had a bad experience in your typing class, but
- >> it would have been financial suicide for any company to
- >> produce a keyboard which was inherently slower than the
- >> many others which were available at the time.
- >
- >Another way to think about this is the following:
- >
- >How long do you think it would take before *someone* learned how
- >to do 90wpm on a QWERTY keyboard? Wouldn't the typewriters just
- >jam again as soon as people got up to speed? This would probably take at
- >most a month or so, at which point all those QWERTY keyboards
- >would again be useless.
-
- On a manual typewriter? Even the best manuals I've used had relatively
- long throw keys, relative to the cheapest electrics, and the shorter
- the key throw, the stronger your fingers need to be. Even back in the
- days of "typing rooms", with formally trained typists doing nothing but
- typing all day long (the only ones who'd be physically up to extreme
- speed), the educators knew that it was more efficient to teach the typists
- to pace themselves, and type at a continuous pace rather than bursts of
- speed punctuated by confused pauses.
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist Lachman Technology, Incorporated
- jeq@i88.isc.com '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094 Naperville, IL
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