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I only am really concerned about one typist, me. yes would be nice if
I didn't have to hunt and peck one other peopels machines but so what,
my machine is for me and it is set up the way I like.
will encourage others to use Dvorak and will push it in public but if
it is other people suffering it is in thier power to change that.
Bob
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Keith Ratliff wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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