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Letter: Letter: Type right

Published 2 February 1991

From PETER NEVILLE

Michael Price’s plea for a more logical typewriter keyboard is one of
many. In 1932, Dvorak and Dealey studied exhaustively the frequency of letter
sequences and devised a theoretically optimum keyboard for the English language
(known as the Dvorak keyboard). Their patent (US 2 040 248) has long expired,
so anyone can freely copy it to reprogram their word processor.

Peter Neville Digswell Hertfordshire

Issue no. 1754 published 2 February 1991

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