Re:fun fact

Ben Cohen sold me his complete collection of the newsletter 
called "Quick Strokes" that was put out quarterly (I think) by a 
group called Dvorak International (or something like that) from the 
mid-1970s to around 1990. It's pretty nerdy stuff, but I glanced 
through this stack of newsletters and there was an article about the 
death of August Dvorak in 1975 or 1976. In the article were some 
comments from his wife including the revelation that he never learned 
to touch-type. When I get home after work I'll scan the article and 
post it up. I too found this surprising.
-Peter

--- In [email protected], Paul Martzen <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
>