Re: ASETNIOP Keyboard

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Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:32:35 +0000 (UTC)

Old Physics <skearney7@earthlink.net> wrote:
> ASETNIOP Keyboard

> Different name, same idea.
> By simply transposing dfjkl; with the letters etniop, a keyboard
> would be made more than forty percent more efficient, 80% more
> efficient for the letters transposed. Less transverse motion and more
> common letters on the home row will result in greater speed, comfort
> and fewer mistakes.
> By keeping the letters under the same fingers you will find that
> etnio and p will be easy to learn, e and t are each more common than
> dfjkl; combined in normal english text. Dfjkl and ; are harder to get
> used to, you will be hitting them in their old locations.

> "Use this test as an exercise, inhibit transverse motion" will
> come out
> "Usd fhks fdsf as aj dxdrcksd, kjhkbkf frajsvdrsd mlfklj" on the
> qwerty keyboard. using text without dfjkl and ; makes it easy to detect
> mistakes as they will show up as etnio or p in the practice.
> Christopher Latham Showles originally put e and probably t on the
> home row under the middle and index fingers of the left hand. This
> caused a jamming of the key bars on his mechanical typewriter, making
> for a machine unfriendly typist. This led to our modern version,
> patented in 1868. Maybe its time to go back to the original design again.

> Stephen Kearney

Have you any idea how many times people have pushed "more efficient"
keyboard layouts only to discover nobody wants to relearn how to type? 

-- 
Jim Pennino
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