Msg: 4274 *Conference*

04-28-93 06:26:16

From: ROBERT BENSON

To : TIM DOUGHERTY

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4273 (WHAT'S THE DEAL?)

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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=-