Re: Re: Build-your-own IBM Selectric typewriter with Dvorak keyboard!

At 01:14 AM 9/30/07, you wrote:

>Yo Ben,
>What's going on in Chicago, dude? Apparently you're the only person
>on this list who's hip enough to understand and appreciate the
>Selectric.
Or old enough?

>If you have a digi-cam, I would love to see (out of scholastic
>curiosity) what the myth-enshrouded Camwil Dvorak type element looks
>like. Assuming you still have it, of course.
Sold the last one; I sold the Selectric when I got the Osborne 1 in 
1982, and the last of the Dvorak elements some time after the last of 
the Selectrics left the office where I was working.

>I think it was pretty ingenious of the guys at Camwil to make such a
>thing, but in reality it was a flawed way of approaching the problem
>of making a qwerty Selectric into a Dvorak machine (because of the
>dual-velocity issue, and the issue of type-element
>interchangeability).
OTOH, the Camwil solution allowed me to use Dvorak while others used 
the same machine with qwerty elements.

Ben