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From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak Keyboard & FreeBSD
Date: 11 Sep 1996 21:51:19 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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To: root@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Charlie &)
In article <5155dh$1ei@anorak.coverform.lan>,
root@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Charlie &) writes:
> Ah, but you don't touch type 'till you learn to use the keyboard.....
Ah, but you can't learn to touch type looking at your fingers! A far
better way to learn touch typing (regardless of layout) is to have a
(small) picture of the keyboard right near your screen where you
*should* be looking. I know someone who went so far as to cover all
the keycaps with old write-protect tabs from 5.25" disk to avoid the
temptation of looking at the keyboard.
> Does anyone know someone that could supply a dvorak keyboard ? I remember
> seeing one on a tv program years ago - it looked slightly like a microslop
> keyboard in that there were two "clusters" of keys - I'd be surprised if
> they were shaped like a regular qwerty...
They look exactly like qwerty keyboards. Really there is no point in
getting one unless you are working with a dumb terminal that cannot
be remapped via software. If thats your situation, then it would
probably be cheaper to unearth an ancient PC (with a keyboard you can
remap) to use as a terminal.
-john
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