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Keyboard Layouts? - 2/4/2007 7:44:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		What kind of keyboards do you guys use? I notice some typo's that are odd because on my keyboard the letters are on different sides of the board. I use a QWERTY keyboard (actual name). It is called a QWERTY keyboard because on the first row of letters (under the numbers), from the left (not including tab or caps lock etc.), the first 6 letters along are Q-W-E-R-T-Y. What are your keyboard layouts?

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/10/2007 11:07:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mine is the QWERTY board. I have seen one that was designed back in the early 60s with a different arrangement to supposedly be easier to use, but it never caught on.

I believe no attempt to replace the QWERTY has ever been sucsessful.

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/10/2007 11:18:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh. So mostly everyone uses qwerty then?

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/11/2007 5:57:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Unless your keyboard is Cyrilic , Katana (I think that's the name for the machine modified Japanese/Chinese characters) or some specialized form of heiroglyphics.

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/11/2007 6:21:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, there is an alternate to the QWERTY keyboard layout called the Dvorak keyboard. It was designed for speed in mind, the keyboard is layed out in a way so that the keys that are used more often are positioned in the easiest place to access. The original QWERTY keyboard layout comes from they days of the old manual typewriters. It is layed out the way it is so that the actual parts of the typewriter didn't bind with each other while the person was typing. It moved the most accessed letters farther apart so that they wouldn't interfer with each other as the user typed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/12/2007 3:30:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's interesting. So since typewriters no one has bothered to change the keyboards because everyone is used to it. Interesting.

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/12/2007 2:42:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Dvorak! That's the name I was trying to remember. Pop Science magazine ran a two page article on it sometime in the early 60s. Was supposed to enable people to type faster, and be easier to use. Never caught on. QWERTY was too established and entrenched.

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RE: Keyboard Layouts? - 2/12/2007 5:21:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		There are several slightly different QWERTY layouts. For example, German, Swedish, and other Western European languages frequently use some characters that you do not need in English.

here's what I am using: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdfi.htm

more at: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx

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