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- From: edavid@sun2.lri.fr (Erwan David)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.100528@sun2.lri.fr>
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- Reply-To: edavid@sun2.lri.fr (Erwan David)
- Organization: LRI - Univ. Paris-Sud / CNRS URA 410
- References: <1993Jan6.222608.20598@oz.plymouth.edu> <C0HsJK.trI@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> <1993Jan8.011726.1250@cs.cornell.edu> <1993Jan8.074835.717@sq.sq.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:05:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.074835.717@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
- |> 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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- Yes it is: Look at your keyboard, imagine the keys are extremely
- and put them down on a single line: You'll get this pattern.
-
- Erwan
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