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- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!msb
- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.074835.717@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1993Jan6.222608.20598@oz.plymouth.edu> <C0HsJK.trI@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> <1993Jan8.011726.1250@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 07:48:35 GMT
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- [PLEASE delete the cross-post to "general". Cross-posting to a non-
- local group and a group with no dots in it is never a proper action.]
-
- > If you had bothered to read other messages, or even knew anything
- > about mechanical typewriters, you would know that E and D *are*
- > "horizontally" adjacent in the only place it counts: the hammers.
-
- Just for interest, here's the order of the type bars (hammers) on my
- typewriter. It's electric, but not electronic, and I would expect the
- order to be that same as is typical on a manual machine.
-
- 1! Q A 2@ Z W S 3# X E D 4$ C R F 5% V T G 6~ B Y H
-
- 7& N U J 8* M I K 9( , O L 0) . P :; -_ / ][ '" =+
-
- (The character shown as ~ above is actually a matrix of dots, for
- shading out an area. The 1! and =+ type bars came with removable
- heads, in case I wanted to buy other characters like 1/2 or the cent
- sign.) You can see how the QWERTY pattern relates to the sequence.
- --
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