Re: Keyboards (Was: W2K key switching limitation -- callforhelp)

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From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 21:48:11 EDT


At 08:36 PM 04/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In <4.2.0.58.20000427163602.00b62e80_at_pop3.iceka1.com>, on 04/27/00
> at 04:40 PM, Randal Whittle <rwhittle_at_usa.net> typed:
>
> > I don't see how. Typewriters were around far longer than
> >computers ever were, using the Dvorak keyboard.
>
>I'm surprised that this thread has gone on as long as it has with this
>misconception being perpetrated. The qwerty keyboard is NOT Dvorak - I

         ACK!!! You are absolutely *Correct*!!! This entire time, I've
been meaning to say "Qwerty", not Dvorak. My (big) mistake! Brain freeze...

>FWIW the old typewriters had a Shift lock (not a caps lock)

         Close enough to the same thing. Certainly not worth a quibble.


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