Tag Archives: keyboard layout

Adventures with a dumbphone, Part Four

Posted on February 3, 2020 by peNdantry

A self-aggrandising anecdote from my past: in October 1989 I took a course called a ‘CLAIT‘ — I passed, with distinction *buffs fingers on chest*. On the course, one tutor was waffling about networks. He mentioned ‘ring networks’ and ‘star … Continue reading →

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How to make your own Dvorak keyboard from a QWERTY one

Posted on April 16, 2016 by peNdantry

Those of you who have been following my puerile witterings here from the early days of ‘Wibble’ may recall that, back in 2007, I underwent the throes of converting my fingers from <spit> QWERTY to the vastly superior keyboard layout … Continue reading →

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Southpaw Dvorak

Posted on March 18, 2008 by peNdantry

The original patent for the Simplified keyboard by Dvorak & Dealey, numbered 2,040,248, was filed on May 21st 1932. It’s available free, from FreePatentsOnline. The patent acknowledges that there is a (slight) right-hand bias in the design of the layout, and includes the comment: For … Continue reading →

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Dvorak beats QWERTY hands down

Posted on September 2, 2007 by peNdantry

Addendum 11Sep2007 Those ‘nice people’ at ‘Texperts’ fed me bad information. Following a suggestion that Mark Kislington used a Stenotype (NOT a Dvorak as Texperts claimed) I wrote to the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA). Their response was: Mark Kislingbury … Continue reading →

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