Subj : Re: Argh!
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Belly
Date : Sun Apr 17 2005 03:07 pm

  Re: Re: Argh!
  By: ROB MCCART to FRANK REID on Sat Apr 16 2005 07:06 pm

 > Some good quality keyboards can be remapped and the key-tops moved
 > to place things wherever you want them. An author (Pierce Anthony)
 > had about 50 pages in the back of one of his novels once explaining
 > how he'd remapped his keyboards and could type MUCH faster, since
 > much of our current keyboard design was developed to minimize the
 > chances of typewriter keys getting jammed.. IOW, they are designed
 > to slow down your access to many keys.  I also saw an interview with
 > a woman who writes romance garba..  err.. novels who had some version
 > of Apple Mac which she had remapped and (I would like to see this)
 > she claimed she could consistantly type at 225 wpm..  Possibly there
 > were macros involved as well to replace common words with a 2-key
 > combo or some such, but still, it would be impressive if true.
 > I knew a secretary once who could type 115 wpm, error free, on an
 > electric typewriter. That seemed fast enough to me considering the
 > best I can manage is about 25 wpm.. with 4 fingers...   B)

Piers Anthony has been a fan of the Dvorak layout for a long time... I've
always wanted to give it a shot, but have always been afraid of making things
hard on myself... If I used one or two PCs during the course of a day, it would
be fine, but because of my job I tend to use many different computers...

     o
    (O) 
   BeLLy


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