Re: Anybody here fluent in both Dvorak & QWERTY?

Cool. Nice machine.
To answer your question, I don't know anything about the background 
of 
my '71. A while back I went on a quest to find a dvorak keyboard 
typewriter. Long story short, I got a call from Gordon's Office 
Equipment, which is right by the campus of Berkeley University. They 
had this specimen; apparently it was dropped off by someone who 
didn't 
like the keyboard arrangement. They sold it to me for $75 plus 
shipping. The machine turned out to have a broken starwheel, which 
was 
subsequently replaced and it works great now. 
About a year later, I was on a road trip to San Francisco, and I 
stopped off in 
Berkeley to check out the campus, and found the shop. It's a funky 
little hole-in-the-wall in a row of old buildings and they actually 
sell and fix typewriters (at least they did as of 2005).


--- In [email protected], "mailorderspam" 
<mailorderspam@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, I still have it, and I created a new photo album for it here:
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altkeyboards/photos/album/884327237/pic/
li
st
> or you can just click Photos on the left after logging in and look 
for
> the album labeled "Smith Corona Coronet Automatic 12",
> 
> I see your album there for the 1971 Smith Corona 250, pb, and the
> keyboard layout is about the same on mine as on yours,
> with the number row we don't see much anymore.  I'm the original
> owner of mine.  I see you "found" yours in Berkeley.  Do you know 
the
> story behind its creation?
>