Msg: 4274 *Conference*
04-28-93 06:26:16
From: ROBERT BENSON
To : TIM DOUGHERTY
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4273 (WHAT'S THE DEAL?)
----- Tim: What time did you try to logon, the board shuts down for 5 minutes just before midnight (its time)? It's important for us to know this because we are testing a modems sensitivity to the Model 200. About the keyboards... the conventional keyboard was arranged to keep the most commonly used keys from jamming on a mechanical typewriter and if you read the first 6 letters on the second row of your keyboard it will spell QWERTY, hence the name! The Dvorak keyboard is re-arranged for more efficient use of the most commonly used keys and I believe the person responsible for it is named Dvorak, but it never took hold for convention is hard to change! The program in the library intercepts your key press and re-routes it however you will have to move the keys. -=Robert=-