Re: OT: A Better Keyboard

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:47:12 -0700

Asetnil wrote:
>
> A better keyboard
>
> Christopher Latham Sholes, the typewriter inventor, originally put
> 'e' on the home row. In normal typing, collisions between print bars
> became inevitable. His 1868 version was a conscious attempt to cause
> typing to be slower. It has been universal ever since.
> Might there be a compromise with the present layout, something
> that might increase typing velocity yet be more relaxing? Something
> that has only minimal changes? Several years ago, I came to believe
> that there is.
> I was able to ascertain that putting letters beneath the same
> ‘motor neurons' will enable an easy transition to using the more
> common letters of English text on the home row. Transposing ‘etni'
> with the less common letters presently on the home row, results in an
> increase that amounts to more than twice the number of letters in
> average text on the same home row positions.
[snip]

Dvorak keyboard. You are a penny short and a day late. It will never
happen. 

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