Re: Re:fun fact

Wow. Yeah, if it came from his wife I guess that's about as good as  
you can get. I'd love to see that article.

I wonder if Dvorak knew shorthand? That would help it make sense.  
After all, in those days most folks got by with a pen or pencil, and  
maybe a typing service.

Marcus

On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:32 AM, pbrun01 wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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