[Amps] Not free QWERTY

[Roger]

On 8/17/2010 11:12 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> The Dvorak typing keyboard is vastly superior to the QWERTY one we have been fosted upon.
> If u want to make some easy money, tell a corporation that you can increase the speed of their data input operators by 20% for your fee.  Then convert all keyboards and typist skills to Dvorak.  Apple used to offer a switch on their keyboards to Dvorak.  Too bad the enjineers did not know enuf to start all computers on Dvorak.... save lots of keying time.
> Can anyone tell why the QWERTY plan is in use?
Yah, but my daughter could type so fast she could jam an IBM 
selectric(TM). I  purchased her a new portable when she started college 
and she had worn it out by the time she graduated.  Me? I could only 
type about 70 wpm at best and I could do that while leaning over the 
shoulder of a student when I was a GA...at age 50. Out of 95 students I 
only had maybe 10 that could actually type and most were business 
majors.  I wonder what I could have done had they not gone to QWERTY?

NOW I feel old when I see they have to explain the early typewriters 
used an ink soaked ribbon that a key struck to transfer the image to the 
paper. (maybe they should explain "White out"<:-))  No, I'm not going to 
give away the secret, but from the above I'm sure you know I know what 
the reasoning behind the choice was.

I saw a note in the paper that new students rarely use wrist watches. 
What do they use?  The watch is far more convenient than a 
PDA/I-pod/i-phone/cell phone. I can just see me on an instrument 
approach, when ATC comes on as I pass the outer marker on the ILS with a 
long clearance "which I have to read back" while trying keep both the 
glide slope and localizer needles centered at 120 mph, to check the time 
(I have to time the approach from the outer marker in just in case I 
lose the glide slope) on something less convenient than a wrist watch or 
the panel clock (which is analog)

As an FYI the Outer marker is usually about 5 miles from the middle 
marker which is over the landing end of the runway and should be where 
you reach what is called Decision Height (DH) where you have to see the 
runway or climb back up on what is called a missed approach.  The Outer 
marker is where the pilot is by far the busiest on top of having ATC 
giving what is usually one of the longer clearances. You have to "read 
back"/repeat the entire clearance back to ATC so they know you received 
and understood it. That means while all of this was going on you were 
writing down the clearance,

Ah, how times change.

73

Roger (K8RI)

>     This is your test for the day.
> BTW:  The RNP is only useful with the YOTR and that is when joined with the GFRI or the GFRE.  Otherwise, one has to employ the ETWRC converter.Alphabet soup is distasteful,   73
>
> Charles Harpole
> k4vud at hotmail.com
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>> From: dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
>> To: amps at contesting.com
>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:49:08 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] Nice freebie
>>
>> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:38:00 -0400, Roger<sub1 at rogerhalstead.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> and I hated RPN with a passion. I find
>>> the algebraic notation so much easier to work with. I just think that way.
>> REPLY:
>>
>> Me too. A good friend tried to get me to use RPN many years ago and I
>> just couldn't get it. It seemed so strange. Regular algebraic notation
>> seems perfectly logical. There's some interesting psychology going on
>> there.  :-)
>>
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
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