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| | Dvorak Keyboard |
 | | One may purchase a Dvorak keyboard, but a cost-free alternative is simply to use software that comes with many operating systems that allows instant reassignment of the QWERTY keys to the Dvorak configuration. | | | Since keyboard operation is a rote skill, now taught by software rather than by humans, there is no need to retrain teachers in the Dvorak keyboard. | | | Keyboard configuration, evidently, is intimately bound to self-perpetuating social convention, and the problem of inertia, which has cost us dearly in lost opportunities for ameliorating physical and economic harms, must be solved socially. |
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http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~sander/mensa/dvorak1.html
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| | Dvorak Keyboard |
| | Dvorak did suprisingly well and, unlike the Maltron keyboard or a set of data-hands (Hi, JD), Dvorak is trivially implemented with current hardware on almost every computing platform. | | | I was first exposed to the Dvorak keyboard as part of an assignment in high school Computer Science AP. | | | I now use Dvorak everywhere but the VT. Learning was fun, especially as I went from only being able to do one or the other on certain machines where I had practiced to being able to switch back on forth on demand. |
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http://www.cs.brown.edu/~scs/dv.html
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| | The Dvorak Keyboard and You |
| | Dvorak Anywhere: A tool to help Dvorak users who are using computers that can't be switched to Dvorak. | | | The Dvorak Keyboard: A brief history of Dvorak, the keyboard's advantages, a commentary, and how to switch your computer. | | | Converting your computer using one of the methods described on the Switch Your Computer to Dvorak page will make your keyboard work and type like a Dvorak, but the keys will still have their original QWERTY letters printed on them. |
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http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak
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| | Dvorak Keyboard Layouts |
| | The keyboard layout you use is determined by software in your computer. | | | Dvorak keyboard layouts are based on designs created by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor at the University of Washington during the 1930s and 1940s. | | | NOTE: The single-handed layouts are designed for computers that use Intel x86-based processors, and are not compatible with MIPS or other non-Intel- based computers running Windows NT. |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q95/1/41.asp
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| | The Dvorak Keyboard |
| | Having heard Dvorak's claims, but not the modern-day scientific analysis of his experiments, I decided to switch to the Dvorak layout in the late 1980s, when computer software (specifically version 10 of the X Window System) made it fairly simple to remap the keyboard layout without making any hardware changes. | | | Once my workplace switched from DOS to Windows and I was able to use the Dvorak layout everwhere, those problems vanished and have not returned. | | | On computers running Mac OS 9.x and later, select the "Apple Menu", then "Control Panels", then "Keyboard", and then select "Dvorak". |
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http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/Dvorak
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| | The simulation showed that the alphabetically organized keyboards were between 2% and 9%n slower than the Sholes keyboard, and the Dvorak keyboard was only about 5% faster than the Sholes. | | | We show that David's version of the history of the market's rejection of Dvorak does not report the true history, and we present evidence that the continued use of Qwerty is efficient given the current understanding of keyboard design. | | | It appears that the principles by which Dvorak ''rationalized" the keyboard may not have fully captured the actions of experienced typists largely because typing appears to be a fairly complex activity. |
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http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html
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| | Dvorak Keyboards |
| | Fentek now offers a Dvorak keyboard with the layouts which match the Dvorak layouts found within your Windows software (This keyboard is not hardwired but will require you to reconfigure your software for the Dvorak layout). | | | There is no need to reconfigure your software for Dvorak when using this board. | | | Instructions to easily reconfigure your Windows software to the DVORAK layout are below. |
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http://www.fentek-ind.com/dvorak.htm
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| | The Dvorak Keyboard |
| | You have discovered that the arrangement of the keys on your computer's keyboard is an inefficient one. | | | In today's computer market, a major strike against them is that it would be very difficult to put such a thing on a laptop computer. | | | In the era of 33-MHz personal computers, such a design criterion is at best quaint. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/dvorak_advice.html
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| | SHIAR Homepage :: The Dvorak Keyboard |
| | Availability: While changing keyboard layout is not hard at all nowadays, it's still annoying when you're frequently changing from computer to computer. | | | The superiority of dvorak also shows in non-english languages, as you can read on my page on Dvorak variations. | | | Difference: It might be a problem when you're using keys by position, unix commands for example, or moving around in vi using hjkl. |
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http://www.shiar.org/happy/txts/dvorak.php
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| | But Dvorak designed his layout in the 1930's without the aid of computers. | | | In the United States, the most common keyboard layout for computer keyboards remains the one designed by Christopher Sholes for the original Remington "Type Writer" in 1876. | | | And it quickly became clear that putting the vowels on the home row of the left hand, which is a cornerstone concept of the Dvorak layout, was not seen by the algorithm as optimal. |
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http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.html
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| | Dvorak Keyboard |
| | Most computer operating systems enable you to reconfigure your keyboard (read how). | | | Additionally because my keyboard is still labeled for QWERTY, I learned how to touch type, which I never quite learned to do before. | | | Because computers do not jamb like typewriters of a century ago, I realized it was just plain stupid to use the QWERTY layout. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~mccarthys/dennis/dvorak.htm
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| | SHIAR Homepage :: non-us Dvorak keyboard layouts |
| | This is why it's useful to adapt the standard dvorak layout sligtly, to optimize it for a specific language. | | | Although Dvorak was optimized purely for the english language, most other european languages will surely benefit from the design as well (they are all quite alike). | | | (Probably aging back to the old typewriters and simply ported to computer keyboards.) Considering dutch people use the same kind of special characters as english people (except for a few accented vowels) it's a mystery why the keyboard was designed this way. |
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http://www.shiar.org/happy/txts/dvoraklv.php
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| | Make Mine Dvorak - One writer's love affair with the other keyboard layout. By Nicholas Thompson |
| | But as Margolis and Liebowitz demonstrated, the methodology was unscientific, uncontrolled, and basically unreliable. | | | Fortunately for me, 99% of my typing is on one of my own computers, and if I need to use someone else's, it only takes 15 seconds to switch to Dvorak in Windows. | | | Everyone can use it easily, and home computers can be switched from QWERTY to Dvorak at a key stroke… |
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http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061547
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| | The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration |
| | The DSK solves the basic problems inherent in the standard keyboard. | | | No satisfactory reason was given (at least from the viewpoint of the Dvorak proponents). | | | The big three current PC operating systems, Windows, Macs, and Linux, all allow you to remap the keyboard in software. |
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http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/ergo/parkinson.html
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| | Dvorak Keyboard - Steve |
| | With the miracle of computers, you can release your fingers from the shackles and chains of hard typing by switching to the Dvorak Layout. | | | You don't need to go out and buy any expensive keyboards or software. | | | Your computer probably already has everything necessary to switch over. |
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http://www.geocities.com/malibu_malv
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| | Joe's Dvorak Page |
| | This keyboard was designed after computers (and modern electric typewriters) rendered obsolete QWERTY's reason for existence. | | | All computers that I know of are set up for QWERTY when they come out of the box, but that doesn't mean they have to stay that way! | | | You can rearrange the keyboard, both physically and system-wise, on Macs, PCs, or Xwindows machines. |
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http://www.strout.net/info/dvorak/intro.html
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| | ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak |
| | FYI: Here's a link to an interesting experiment, where somebody attempted to improve on the Dvorak layout using Genetic Algorithms. | | | I even bought a piece of commercial software that claimed to teach the Dvorak layout. | | | I know now that one commercial software package, Mavis Bacon Teaches Typing, does have Dvorak lessons. |
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http://gigliwood.com/abcd
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| | US Qwerty and Dvorak Keyboard Layouts |
| | However, if you think learning Dvorak is tame and like the idea of rewiring your brain with something even more eccentric, order a Dvorak and give Qwerak a try by enabling it electronically. | | | Here is how Qwerak's surface-typing optimizations differ slightly from Dvorak's objectives for mechanical keyboards: | | | All TouchStream units can be reconfigured electronically to behave as QWERTY or DVORAK keyboards. |
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http://www.fingerworks.com/layouts.html
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| | The Switchable Dvorak, Qwerty Keyboard* |
| | Welcome to the DvortyBoards.com online store, where you will find switchable, hardwired Dvorak/Qwerty computer keyboards, designed to support your ergonomic keyboarding needs at a price you can afford. | | | Hard-wired for Dvorak and Qwerty - no software needed! | | | This is the keyboard for the New Millenium! |
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http://www.dvortyboards.com
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| | Dvorak Keyboard |
| | In 1936, efficiency experts August Dvorak and William Dealey studied the typewriter to determine that they could arrange the keys in a new way which would speed up the operators of the typewriter. | | | I have written two versions of my Applet so that it will work in both older and newer browsers. | | | The layout that they created is called the DVORAK keyboard named after one of its' inventors. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/knghtowl/java.html
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| | Anti-Dvorak Crusaders |
| | L&M say that "the advent of computer keyboards, which can easily be reprogrammed,...lowers the cost of converting to Dvorak to essentially zero" (true, yes), but "few computer users have adopted the Dvorak keyboard." May I inquire as to the whereabouts of their "high standard", statistically valid study to support this statement? | | | The best raw data I have access to at present is from KEYTIME, a Seattle-based company which uses keyboard instructional technologies they developed in house. | | | While I agree that Dvorak's slow acceptance may not be a good example of why markets can't be "trusted," L&M first slander "Typewriting Behavior", the 1936 book by Dvorak, et al., presenting the keyboard's design as "a late-night television infomercial rather than scientific work". |
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| | The Dvorak Keyboard -- a Primer |
| | Who knows -- unlike typewriters, which needed precision mechanical work to convert them, computers are by their nature programmable, and it's a cinch to convert them to Dvorak. | | | Dvorak (Univ. of Washington, Seattle; b.1894, d.1975) used his research to design two other keyboards specifically for people with only one hand (one each for the right and left), which allow people with the use of just one hand to type very easily and efficiently -- at speeds up to 50 wpm. | | | On Dvorak, the keys on the home row make up literally thousands of words (we have a list of nearly 5000 from one electronic dictionary alone!), meaning you could have typed real words on your first day of typing class... |
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http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com
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| | Dvorak Keyboard Observations - Narrative |
| | With early Dvorak software one glitch after another was experienced. | | | Silver Reed manufactured a typewriter that could be changed to Dvorak at the touch of a switch, but to make it practical, expensive memory had to be added. | | | Interest was kindled by the idea you have a choice between a keyboard designed to be awkward, and one that has been greatly improved. |
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http://sominfo.syr.edu/facstaff/dvorak/narativ1.html
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| | Computer Keyboards |
| | Fentek Industries, Inc. is your single source for custom, standard, programmable, wireless, and ergonomic computer keyboards, computer keys, specialized keys and keysets, custom printed keytops, keycaps, keyboard templates, keytop and keyfront overlay labels, membrane graphics, large print and assistive keyboards, language keytop overlays and International language keyboards, keyboard accessories, keyboard protectors, and custom keyboard modifications. | | | - A variety of wireless keyboards that let you access your computer from a distance of up to 100 feet. | | | Full Size Keyboard allow you to use your keyboard in the dark. |
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http://www.fentek-ind.com
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| | Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard -- Layout Diagram |
| | ANSI places both square brackets on the same key (requiring a shift for one), omits curly brackets (which usually end up both on the same key too), and leaves the +/= key on the topmost row. | | | The arrangement shown here is common to most Mac, DOS/Windows, and OS/2 Dvorak layouts, but it is not strictly ANSI standard Dvorak. | | | Then open the PDF directly from Acrobat Reader. |
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http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/layout.html
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| | ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak |
| | An exuberant Bill Clinton blew into his saxophone before the ambassadors; it was an extraordinary experience that nobody could explain. | | | ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak is Copyright © 1995-99 Dan Wood. |
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http://gigliwood.com/abcd/abcd.html
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