X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,c7d9bdca1d0caae2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,c7d9bdca1d0caae2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,c7d9bdca1d0caae2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-03 23:30:31 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: Dvorak layout Date: 3 Oct 1994 22:06:37 -0500 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 708-367-1871 Lines: 61 Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <36qgrt$nf@gagme.wwa.com> References: <781124699.1969.0@unix6.andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:1913 alt.ascii-art:12608 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:1267 Victor Ortega wrote: >Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote: >> I use a Dvorak layout for actual typing because it is faster and >> requires less effort to type than QWERTY. OWERTY was scienfically designed >> to make typing difficult in the age of manual typewriters when typist >> were too fast for them and jammed them a lot. > >Because of my lack of knowledge on the subject, I decided to look this >up in my encyclopedia. Here's what I found under "typewriter": > > Despite the revolutionary advances in typewriter capabilities, > one essential element has remained unchanged since the first > Remington. The keyboard arrangement, nicknamed QWERTY for the > top line of letters, was designed to make it easier for salesmen > to sell the machines. All the letters in the word "typewriter" > are in the top line, so there was no need to hunt and peck. A > much more efficient arrangement was devised in 1936 by August > Dvorak, cousin of the composer. With the Dvorak keyboard, the > right hand does equal work with the left, the strongest fingers > do the most work, and 70 percent of the typing takes place on the > "home row," where the fingers naturally rest. In 1872, Christopher Lathan Sholes and two associates invented a machine he called a 'Type-Writer'. It worked, but in those times, they could not make a machine fast enough to keep from jamming. So since Sholes couldn't make the machine faster, after much experimentation, he created a keyboard layout that was inconvenient to use. Unfortunately the world has had to use this junk ever since. Whether he put the keys to spell Type-Writer on one row, I don't know. Here is how my dvorak keyboard is: row ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } #1 ` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 [ ] delete row " < > P Y F G C R L ? + | #2 tab ' , . p y f g c r l / = \ row A O E U I D H T N S _ #3 caplock a o e u i d h t n s - return row : Q J K X B M W V Z #4 shift ; q j k x b m w v z shift spacebar -- _--_ ____ . || || ||_ _ /:\ || || || | (/_ /;:.\ ||__. _ //;:. \ ~ || /'\\< \,,._-_ /'\\ /'\\,._-_ /'\\ \\ \\ \\ ///;:.. \ || || /-|| || || / || || || || || || || __--"////;:... \"--__ || || (( || || ||/ || || || || || || || --__ "--_____--" __-- ,-___- \\,/ \/\\ \\, \\,/ \\,/ \\, \\,/ \\//\// """--_______--"""