[sotd] June 11, 2002 [Qwerty]

        Site of the Day for Tuesday, June 11, 2002

        Friends Don't Let Friends Type QWERTY

The List offers a website with a mission -- to convince its visitors to
consider a more viable and practical design in keyboards. The Dvorak
keyboard may be the answer. While the List's gentle members may not be
panting to charge into the unfamiliar territory of a different keyboard
layout, this website presents an interesting perspective on a part of our
computing equipment which many may take for granted.

"The standard typewriter keyboard layout was invented in 1872. The "Qwerty"
layout, as it is called, was designed to prevent keys from jamming in
mechanical typewriters. It was not optimized for typing speed or for
comfort. It was not designed for computers. But you have a Qwerty keyboard
plugged into your computer right now!" - from the website

The site offers information about switching a QWERTY keyboard to the Dvorak
layout, including a diagram of the design, as well as links to various
different types of keyboards of innovative conception.

Peck your way to the site for an interesting perspective on a bit of early
twentieth century technology still grimly hanging on in the high tech world
at:

http://www.catskill.net/evolution/typing/


  A.M. Holm
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