[Groop] Keyboarding...Dvorak?

[Groopunk at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/20/2004 10:15:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
vaughn at sewardconsulting.com writes:

The  design of the early typewriters was such that they had trouble with keys 
 sticking at faster typing speeds. To get around this the keyboard was  
deliberately laid out to slow typists down (and thus the QWERTY layout). So  today 
we are using a legacy keyboard design explicitly engineered to be slow  and 
awkward.


The way I learned it, typwriters weren't deliberately laid out to slow  
typists down, but makers discovered that some letters were used far more  
frequently than others.  In an alphabetical set-up of the keyboard, some of  these 
commonly used letters happened to reside very near each other and so, when  
typing, they would wind up meeting and catching.  The keyboard was then  designed to 
spread out the more commonly used letters so as to help prevent them  from 
sticking.
 
Ah-ha... here we go:
 
_http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html_ 
(http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html) 
 
 
-seth
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