kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) (06/10/91)
My typing style seems to be making a mess out of my fingers. No carpel tunnel, yet, but I'm starting to get worried. I've finally returned to a more "correct" typing style, but it would be nice to find some sort of keyboard that worked with me to prevent damage to my fingers. I'm not really sure what'd be best. Probably a Dvorak keyboard that allows the hands to "wrap" around it, but last I heard, the wrap around keyboards weren't working too well yet. A chording keyboard might work, but I've not seen any for the Mac yet. Any suggestions would be very welcome. I'll post a summary when they stop coming in. Thanks in advance.
pizza@leland.Stanford.EDU (Pete Richards) (06/11/91)
In article <221@eclectic.COM> kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) writes: > > My typing style seems to be making a mess out of my fingers. etc etc etc I have been a strong advocate of the Dvorak keyboard since I "converted" a year or 2 ago. Highly highly recommended. My fingers used to hover in the air over the keyboard like vultures and now I'm much more relaxed. Plus you sure as heck learn to _really_ touchtype when the wrong letters are on the keys... If you're interested I hacked a KCHR resource that you can paste into you System file which will reconfigure your standard QWERTY keyboard into Dvorak in software. The wrong letters are on the keys but as I said it improves your style after you suffer. Actually, thanks to some foresight at Apple, if you past the resource into your system file a new rectangle comes up in the Control panel Keyboard cdev allowing you to switch back and forth. Nifty! Anyway I again really recommend the Dvorak-- the only big big minus is dealing with Command key shortcuts that are hardwired into your brain. Undo/ Cut/Copy/Paste needs to be changed to Command- ; Q J K from Z X C V... Also dealing with QWERTYs again is kind of a pain if you move around. Happy typing... Pete Richards crunge@angelo.stanford.edu