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

Hi Peter,

I have just discovered this great web site where you can post 
instructions (and pictures) for how to do things (anything).  Your 
work seems like a great candidate for that site.  It would also help 
get the dvorak keyboard "out there".

http://www.instructables.com/

Thank you,
Nicole

--- In [email protected], "pbrun01" <pbrun01@...> wrote:
>
> Dear List Members,
> 
<SNIP>

> Now, here's the really interesting thing about the Selectric 
> typewriter: the way the machine is designed, it is relatively easy 
> (if you know what you're doing, that is) to convert it from the 
> qwerty keyboard to the Dvorak keyboard. A former IBM engineer in 
> Oregon turned me on to this fact back when I was scouring the 
nation 
> for a typewriter with the dvorak keyboard. This same guy offered to 
> convert a refurbished Selectric II to the Dvorak keyboard for $500. 
> That was way too much money, so I politely declined. But the seed 
of 
> interest had been planted. A couple years later, I decided to take 
on 
> the challenge of converting a Selectric myself. In short order I 
> assembled the necessary tools and technical manuals to do the job. 

<SNIP>
> --Peter