Re: [9fans] dvorak

[jpc@rpi.edu]

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i've always thought a great keyboard would have lcd's on each key
rather than a printed letter.  switch from dvorak to qwerty to
whatever at a command and the keyboard still reads correctly.  you
could show which greek letter or funny math symbol a key would
generate when appropriate (alt, shift, special mode of software or
whatever)

john

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From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dvorak
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:43:12 +1100
Message-ID: <3FE78190.5040101@ajft.org>

Brantley Coile wrote:
>>it's also much fun to set the system back to qwerty and have the
>>keycaps bear no relationship to what shows up on the screen...
> 
> 
> I helped a friend debug a program that worked while he was sitting
> down, but didn't while he was standing up.  We spend about 30 minutes
> puzzing over this until I noticed that someone has swapped two
> of his key caps.  While he was sitting he touch typed and while
> he was standing he was hunting and pecking, and hitting the
> incorrect key.

Ouch! sneaky.

I found myself stuck in a foreign internet cafe once, unable to login to 
my web-based email system.  I had no idea what my password was, I knew 
what the finger pattern was to type the password - but only on a QWERTY 
keyboard.

Whichever one you're used to, finding yourself at a different keyboard 
is a major irritation, especially in a foreign place while paying $10 
per hour to try and read email on a badly maintained filthy windows 98 
PC, connected by a piece of wet string to the internet.

> I don't think we were the first to have this mysterious bug.
> 
>  Brantley

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