Ahouxn.104
fa.editor-p
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxn!govern
Tue Feb 23 11:03:37 1982
Re: QWERTY was designed to slow typing down!
That is a fairly well known fact, but unnfortunately, there are about 100
million QWERTY's around, and most people who can type at all are unwilling
to switch.  Real shame.  I'm not affected as much, since hunt&peck is slow
anyway, but a good keyboard would be nice.  Maybe tou could write some
EMACS macros to convert, and glue paper labels on your keyboard?

There was a good article in Industrial Engineering (AIIE rag) a few years
back about the design of a Hebrew typewriter, which included repositioning
the keys for easier finger motions.  This reduced fatigue as well as
increasing speed ... easier to do in Hebrew with fewer letters, but they
have those vowel-dots to deal with too.

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