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| | The Switchable Dvorak, Qwerty Keyboard* |
 | | With the DvortyBoard and the TypeMatrix keyboards, the keyboard in use becomes invisible to the computer and the operating system it is using. | | | Even Microsoft had the Dvorak keyboard available to its customers, but prior to the first version of Windows, the keyboard mapping within the computer had to be modified during the boot-up process. | | | The Dvorak Keyboard (as the Simplified Keyboard is now known) has been only marginally necessary until the widespread use of computers. |
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http://www.dvortyboards.com/about.html
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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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| | 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. | | | If you move from computer to computer a lot and you can't switch the computers to Dvorak, I would recommend trying Dvorak Anywhere. |
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http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak
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| | Talk:Dvorak Simplified Keyboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When I first considered learning the keyboard I was a bit concerned about that but I have my keyboard set up so that I can switch not only between languages with three keys but also between Qwerty and Dvorak with two. | | | Perhaps Dvorak's best chance for survival and ulimate dominance is a teaching program designed to help users learn both keyboards with minimal frustration and maximum benefit. | | | Indeed, the biggest problem I have with Dvorak is that other people get confused when they use my computer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
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| | Dvorak Simplified Keyboard |
| | Fortunately, the computer keyboard allows us to be of both persuasions, QWERTY and Dvorak, though monoga mously so. | | | There have been a lot of studies on Dvorak's "Simplified Keyboard." The obstacles to the new keyboard were the costs of replacing machines and retraining typists. | | | And yet the adoption of the "Simplified Keyboard" is perhaps the biggest obstacle to widespread computer literacy (i.e. |
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http://www.voicenet.com/~grassie/Fldr.Articles/Simplified.html
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| | Cyber-Freedom: Typing Dvorak in a QWERTY World |
| | But the advent of the computer has given the Dvorak keyboard a new chance at life because converting to a different key layout is no longer a matter of throwing away chunks of metal but of simply loading a new keyboard map. | | | With a Dvorak keyboard, you can move to any computer without changing any operating system settings. | | | In other words, even though the Dvorak keyboard is better, the QWERTY keyboard wins because of its large base of users who don't want to retrain. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/surf/040297mind.html
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| | Reason magazine -- June 1996 |
| | What's more, the advent of computer keyboards, which can easily be reprogrammed to any configuration, lowers the cost of converting to Dvorak to essentially zero (not counting retraining). | | | Sholes and his associates experimented with various keyboard designs, in part to solve the problem of the jamming of the keys. | | | Yet few computer users have adopted the Dvorak keyboard. |
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http://reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml
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| | DVzine.org - Dvorak FAQ |
| | This means if you are typing a paper in Word using Dvorak, but the computer's default input language is QWERTY (maybe because you share this computer with someone who is as yet unenlightened), then when you open Outlook to check your e-mail, it will be in QWERTY, and you'll accidentally type your password in Dvorak... | | | In 1932 Professor August Dvorak scientifically designed an improved keyboard layout based on research and logic. | | | Although we have heard of most of these things, The Dvorak Zine team is trying to stay focused on the standard Dvorak layout: we know it works, we know it's easy to set up on almost any modern computer, and we know it makes us happy. |
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http://www.dvzine.org/faq
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| | Dvorak(-Dealey) Alphanumeric Layout |
| | The first is a hardware solution: get a keyboard that has been physically designed to implement the Dvorak layout. | | | And you can move the keyboard from one machine to another with a minimum of fuss. | | | If you do all your work on one PC this is not all that big of a deal, but many people occasionally use more than one machine, or share a machine with others who may have no interest in Dvorak. |
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http://www.pcguide.com/ref/kb/layout/alphaDvorak-c.html
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| | Joe Clark: Apple Adjustable Keyboard (2 of 2) |
| | The humble keyboard, however, continues to rule the computing roost effectively unchanged from its typewriter prehistory. | | | Apple introduced the adjusto-board last week in part to differentiate the Mac from other computer makes, and while the company is committed to producing versions of the keyboard in the 37 languages the Mac comes in, it won't be standard equipment: It costs $219. | | | Now, though, future keyboards may make like a banana and split if the Apple Adjustable Keyboard becomes a pacesetter. |
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http://www.joeclark.org/aakboardvv.html
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| | In the latter case, users of other keyboard layouts will encounter numerous discrepancies between what he or she tries to type and what the program interprets. | | | A program called svgakeymap is provided to generate these maps from the keytable files in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables; you must have perl for it to work. | | | ** Background When you press or release a key on your keyboard, it sends a byte of data to your computer. |
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http://leuksman.com/linux/README.keymap
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| | Keymileage: Letting Your Fingers Do Too Much Walking |
| | Just about any computer can be switched to Dvorak instantly, for free. | | | Unfortunately, it cannot load in files, and computes in metric. | | | Instructions for switching just about any computer under the sun, as well as much more information can be found at Marcus Brooks' "Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard." |
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http://www.integrity.com/homes/tomandkaren/Keymileage
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| | Dvorak History--John Shipman |
| | In about 1930, Dr. August Dvorak, an American from Seattle (I've heard that he is distantly related both to Antonin Dvorak the composer and John Dvorak the iconoclastic computer columnist), undertook a study of efficiency in the office. | | | Here's a brief summary of the history of the Dvorak keyboard. | | | In practical terms, then, Sholes anti-engineered the keyboard. |
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http://www.primitivism.com/dvorak.htm
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| | If a program requires knowledge of this information (i.e., a typing program which draws the Dvorak keyboard), it must ask the user for input. | | | _________________________________________________________________________ Figure 1-Dvorak DSK Layout on Early IIc Computers Due to service part changes and other manufacturing considerations, it is not possible to identify which IIc units have which keyboard ROM by looking at identification bytes. | | | Since such a program must already ask the user if the keyboard switch is depressed (indicating a Dvorak layout), making this type of inquiry instead will do the trick. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apple2/technotes/tn/aiic/TN.AIIC.004
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| | The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration |
| | The DSK solves the basic problems inherent in the standard keyboard. | | | He asked businesses in the area how many DSK machines they had in their offices. | | | No satisfactory reason was given (at least from the viewpoint of the Dvorak proponents). |
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http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/ergo/parkinson.html
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| | Dvorak Keyboard: Change outmoded patterns of behavior |
| | Having an alternative keyboard pattern does not place an undue burden on the computer system. | | | I do hope you will reconsider your policy regarding the Dvorak keyboard option. | | | Back to the center of the gaia brain spiderweb page. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1942/dvorak.html
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| | Convert Your Model M to a "Post-Ban" Dvorak |
| | The Dvorak 'simplified' keyboard layout was developed in the 1920's and 30s by August Dvorak and William Dealey. | | | The "F" and "J" keys are now nowhere near the home key position, and the new home keys, "U" and "H," have no "pips" so that you can more easily find your hand position without having to look down at the keyboard. | | | I don't have a perfect solution to this problem. |
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http://www.pigdog.org/model_m_retrofit.html
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| | Dvorak Books Order Form |
| | __ Typewriting Behavior, Dr. Dvorak's seminal 536-page, 1936 book which details his team's 12-year effort to understand the mechanics of the typewriter keyboard -- and their design of the far superior "Simplified Keyboard". | | | __ Randy Cassingham's book The Dvorak Keyboard -- the first (and still only!) general interest book about the Dvorak, which explains its design, benefits, and how to switch if you already know how to type. | | | All are confirmed "good" articles -- we have a copy of each in our files. |
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http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/dv-order.html
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| | Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard |
| | The Dvorak keyboard layout is a control panel option on almost every current computer. | | | Switch Your Computer to Dvorak (FREE for most systems!) | | | This site offers downloads and information to help you start using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. |
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http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak
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| | Simon Shine's Home Page |
| | You can find a ton of information about how the Dvorak keyboard looks like, why you should learn Dvorak, and how to learn to write Dvorak. | | | It is a keyboard layout designed with optimization in mind, unlike QWERTY. | | | My own reasons for changing to Dvorak were basically that I had nothing better to do and that I wanted to experiment with my thoughts as I usually do. |
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http://shine.eu.org
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| | Stojack Thesis Abstract |
| | This study compared the standard typewriter keyboard (QWERTY) with a simulation of the Dvorak simplified keyboard (DSK). | | | Additional research on keyboards is needed, although the use of simulated keyboards may not be appropriate for testing. | | | A within-subjects design was used to test 20 subjects on both the QWERTY layout and a simulation of the DSK. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~psych/gradprgm/alumni/thesesio/stojack.html
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| | Typist v3.1h Java Applet Start Page |
| | Typist is a program to provide you with instruction and practice in using a computer keyboard. | | | Use of Typist is completely free, and the Java source code for the program is distributed under the GNU General Public License. | | | This button will start Typist, configured for systems with a Dvorak keyboard. |
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http://www.geocities.com/simon_baldwin/typist
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| | Fun Facts - netYAK.com |
| | "...the claim for the superiority of QWERTY’s chief modern rival, the Dvorak keyboard, which the path dependence people have accepted on its face, is simply not true. | | | “A typewriter keyboard arrangement that solves a temporary mechanical problem on the first typewriter becomes entrenched as the standard for generations to come, even though it is notoriously inefficient.” | | | Dvorak’s experiments consisted primarily of comparing the performance of groups of students learning his keyboard with the performance of other groups of students, of different ages, at other schools, with different training regimens, learning QWERTY. |
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http://www.netyak.com/YAKbites/facts.htm
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| | Barbara Blackburn, the World's Fastest Typist |
| | In 1938, as a freshman in business college, Blackburn first laid hands on a Dvorak keyboard. | | | Also, she starred in a television commercial for Apple Computers, which offered a switchable Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard with its Apple IIc model. | | | The key, so to speak, is in the keyboard design. |
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http://sominfo.syr.edu/facstaff/dvorak/blackburn.html
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| | Dvorak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | August Dvorak, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard | | | Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, Named after August Dvorak | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak
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| | The Straight Dope: Was the QWERTY keyboard purposely designed to slow typists? |
| | It's called the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, or DSK, after inventor August Dvorak, who developed it while a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. | | | The QWERTY keyboard was designed to place the most commonly used letters on the opposite sides of the keyboard, making jamming mechanically less likely. | | | Was the QWERTY keyboard purposely designed to slow typists? |
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html
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| | WH: re: One handed keyboard |
| | Windows 95/98 has a keyboard >map for it and it is easy to change a standard keyboard to use it. | | | http://www.thisistrue.com/dvorak.html has >some info about it including a copy of the keyboard map but there are others >(including tests done on keystroke rates, etc.). | | | Ironically, the detractocs are less interested in the jeyboard than in dismissing it as thu classic example 'market inertia'. |
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http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard/19998665.html
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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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| | Dvorak Uncensored » New Simplified Keyboard |
| | I’ve always wondered - do you use a Dvorak keyboard, Dvorak? | | | That would make a better TV remote control. | | | God, no…I have enough trouble when I get put in front of a European keyboard with mixed up letters. |
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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/index.php?p=1265
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