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- From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.021337.9903@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <C0HsJK.trI@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> <1993Jan8.011726.1250@cs.cornell.edu> <1993Jan8.200048.19143@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:13:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.200048.19143@wdl.loral.com> bmk@box.ssd.loral.com (Bruce Krawetz) writes:
- >I dont think hammer placement is the ONLY place it counts. I find it
- >difficult to jam the E & D hammers because the same finger is used to
- >strike those keys (and my finger doesn't move _that_ fast!)
-
- I got curious enough about this to try it out. I have a decent manual
- office typewriter. I tried typing "ghghghghg..." as fast as I
- comfortably could with alternating index fingers. I typed a whole
- line with no jams. (Of course that just shows I have a relatively
- modern machine :-).) I did find it difficult to alternate
- "dededed..." as quickly. But I found that if I struck "E" and
- immediately "bounced" down to the "D" key I could jam the typewriter,
- and I could do this trick repeatedly. Remember, this is a typewriter
- that is relatively very *difficult* to jam.
-
- My conclusion: Keyboard layout does not cause or prevent jams.
- Poor typing causes them.
-
- Of course I could easily be wrong, but it will take a study with more
- scientific design than the one I just conducted to convince me.
-
- -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
-