Re: Re: Yes. we can Dvorak.

Regardless, I think most of us can agree that QWERTY isn't the way to go.
And I think a change will come but the change might be predicated by a
different way to type all together.

--Keith

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 09:54, Steven Marzuola <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Gregory,
>
> Sorry if this is late, I don't read the group regularly.
>
> Dvorak did some groundbreaking work and we would all be better off if his
> layout had become more popular in the 1930's. Most of all, it was his
> approach to improvement.
>
> But for several reasons, his 1932 keyboard design is not popular for
> computer keyboards in 2009, and I predict it will remain that way.
>
> It's not just poor marketing. Here's a list of reasons why I don't use it.
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altkeyboards/message/3512
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> Steven
>
>
> --- In [email protected] <altkeyboards%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "gregorystuartgordon" <gregory@...> wrote:
> >
> > Most of us here in the Alt keyboard forum are truly dedicated to seeing
> to it that the user interface between man and his main machine in improved,
> none more so than me.
> >
> > Did you know that it was estimated back in the early 1970's that America
> alone had lost more than one trillion dollars in productivity potential from
> the time the Dvorak keyboard was invented until then. And, that was way
> before personal computers became household items. My guesstimate is that it
> hovers around a trillion dollars per year at this point in time.
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