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Randy Cassingham, a Dvorak keyboard nutball.... --John Dvorak (no relation), PC Magazine The Dvorak keyboard The Dvorak keyboard is an ergonomic alternative to the layout commonly found on typewriters and computers known as Qwerty . The Qwerty keyboard was designed in the 1870s to accommodate the slow mechanical movement of early typewriters. When it was designed, touch typing literally hadn't ...

QWERTY - The Real Story! in SuperKids Educational Software Review ...

Three MYTHS about QWERTY Myth Number 1 --He did it to make typists SLOW DOWN! . Above, we see typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. For over 100 years, he has suffered a bad rap. According to MYTH, his original machine was so clumsy that it tended to jam when operated by typists working at high speed. Biologist Stephen Jay Gould used the keyboard to compare technological evolution, to ...