Re: Re: Keyboard news

Hello all,

I really hope this list to live on for a long time. You all know loving
keyboards is a weird thing and a lonely passion most of the time :P

I'm from Brazil and have never been able to buy a decent keyboard, first
because I don't have the money and second because they are hard if not
impossible to find here. Instead I've dedicated myself to improving my
Dvorak typing, which I've adopted lots of years ago. Since then I write
exclusively with it when at home, but I still can touch type in my old
speed in Qwerty (really fast, although with an awkward use of fingers) and
have also learned to touch type (although I'm not fast) in the russian
Jtsuke.

Dvorak (although I've seen a lot of people saying it isn't proved, etc.)
benefits where obvious after a few months typing with it: wrist pain was
gone, errors too, speed just grew and so forth. I love it, don't regret the
change and will, as long as keyboards resist as a plausible form of
inputting data, use it. And even after that, I believe :D

That said, I'm in love with the following keyboards for years and one day I
hope to collect them:

Kinesis Contoured
Kinesis Freestyle
Datahand
Typematrix
Happy Hacking
Das Keyboard Ultimate
Truly Ergonomic

Keep this alive!


Felipe Barros


On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:55 AM, r.sherriff <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I'm thinking on the same lines. Was learning Dvorak (very intuitive and a
> lot faster than Qwerty), but decided the best bet for me (for non home
> reasons} would be Qwerty with an ergonomic keyboard. If I was writing a
> novel, Dvorak would for me, be the way to go.
>
> ===================================================================
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "marzolian" <marzolian@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Giles. Glad to see that there's still interest in the group.
> >
> > I have most of what I like in a keyboard. For both home and office, I
> use a MS Natural Elite keyboard with a Wow-Pen Joy mouse. I am a big fan of
> the contoured keyboard; to me it was a much bigger improvement than the
> Dvorak layout. When I sit at a flat keyboard or use a regular mouse it
> feels wrong, or twisted.
> >
> > I tried Dvorak (for a few months in the last millenium) but I had lots
> of trouble switching back and forth (was working short-term assignments
> where I couldn't switch). Also annoying was the Ctrl-X / C / V assignments.
> For that reason, I would consider Colemak, maybe, one day.
> >
> > I think my ideal keyboard would be ergonomic, in the style of the
> Natural Elite, with a cursor device such as a J-mouse (no touch pad) in the
> middle of the keys, or something like a Rollermouse below the space bar. I
> like the buckling spring action, but not the noise. And I wish somebody
> would make an ergo keyboard without the leftward slant. The right hand's
> fairly comfortable, actually, it's just the left side.
> >
> > Thinking farther out, I would like to try something like a data glove --
> where my fingers would twitch but not have to touch a physical keyboard.
> But I have been waiting for that for about 15 years, and it ain't happening
> yet.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Steven Marzuola
> > www.techlanguage.com
>
>  
>


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