From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 17 11:37:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA09191 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-13.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09185 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA25550; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:35:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199607171835.OAA25550@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol From: Branson Matheson To: John Fieber cc: Stephen McKay , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to Dvorak (was Re: FreeBSD keyboard) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 11:43:23 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:35:42 -0400 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- John Fieber uttered with conviction: > On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Stephen McKay wrote: > > Now that I know someone who has switched, I can ask that all > important question: "Was it really worth it?". Yes, *really* worth > it. How long did the switch take you? > > My case is pretty atypical. > > I never properly learned qwerty. When I first had a computer, and > discovered that being able to type was helpful, I got some typing > books and worked away for some months, all the time thinking there > must be a better way. At some point I remembered hearing something > about a faster keyboard layout and after some hunting, I found a > picture of a dvorak keyboard. I f igured out how to remap the > keyboard and set to work on the new layout. I'd say that it was > less than a week before I surpased my qwerty speed and have never > gone back. I am right now typing this on a dvorak kbd and already not having to look at the keys... Lots of misfires ... but I can already see some improvement... - branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?