[CW] Morse Code influences QWERTY keyboard

[Fernando]

Hello Donald.

That's also the net course that I used. It's been 5 years now.

Great to have that resource on the web.

In a previous life fixed IBM typewriters in their Office Product Division.

Now wished I had saved one of them with the Dvorak keys.

True that you can map a different keyboard on the computer,

but not a solution in embedded systems. For example,

on my Ten Tec Jupiter, it wants the key code directly from the attached

keyboard. No intermediary computer to map the keystrokes.

I do use peking on the IPAD, Apple hasn't provided a Dvorak mapping,

but they do provide QWERTZ and some other exotic mappings.

Stand alone (hardware) Dvorak keyboards are few and pricey for that application.

Anyway fellas, sorry for straying away from cw.

Thanks for the note.

73

Fernando N2FQ/6
n2fq at sbcglobal.net




On May 7, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Donald Chester <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:

> <<Me use Dvorak. The fastest typist (Mrs Barbara Blackburn of Salem, OR)
> 
> only used Dvorak. If it's good for her, then it can't be all that bad
> (Fields).
> 
> Fernando N2FQ/6>>
> 
> I have used Dvorak for at least the past 15 years. Before that I could never
> do much better than hunt and peck even after typing courses both in high
> school and university.  Mastered the Dvorak keyboard in about 3 weeks one
> summer, using an on-line tutorial practising about 20 minutes a day, and
> within a couple of  months my typing speed was back up to normal, and after
> 4-6 months was far beyond anything I had ever achieved with QWERTY.  Using
> it is much more comfortable and relaxing, to boot.  
> 
> I used to have to look at  the keys while typing. Now I can truly touch type
> without glancing at the keyboard. Of course, that might have something to do
> with the  letters on the keys not being the same as what the keys really
> type.  All modern day computers have the option of toggling keyboard layouts
> with a few simple keystrokes. If I encounter a keyboard not set up to toggle
> over to Dvorak, I just look at the keys and peck with my two index fingers.
> 
> http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/
> 
> 
> Here is the latest version of the tutorial I used.
> 
> http://gigliwood.com/abcd
> 
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