Re: Re:fun fact

I'd really like to see where that claim came from. Even if you  
exclude the few pages that talk about keyboards, Dvorak et al's  
_Typewriting Behavior_ is all about fast, efficient typing. The idea  
of Dvorak typing with only two or four fingers is anathema.

I would be less surprised to hear someone claim that Dvorak didn't  
type at all. He might well have written some or all of his text and  
correspondence longhand, or dictated it for transcription. But even  
if a secretary or casual observer said they never _saw_ him type,  
that's no proof he _couldn't_ type.

Marcus
Billions of people never saw me ride a bicycle. Some who did probably  
still don't believe it.

On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Paul Martzen wrote:

> The statement that Dvorak did not ever learn to touch type sounds very
> fishy to me.   Do you have a source for this information?
> I have never seen this reported in any of my readings about Dvorak.
>
> Frankly the idea seems almost impossible to me.  While he was  
> working on
> the keyboard, how would he not type on it and compare the movements  
> with
> other keyboards?   If you experiment with a Dvorak keyboard for any
> length of time, you inevitably start touch typing, especially on the
> home row.
>
> Maybe all professors used secretaries for typing at that time, but
> unless I see this statement made by Dvorak himself, his wife, a  
> coworker
> or other reliable source, I will put this statement in the Troll
> category.
>
> Paul Martzen
>