Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?


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Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?



At 09:20 PM 11/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I knwo a guy who can type 40wpm on his TI-85. So I think that if you
>practice enough it doesn't matter whether the keyboard is QWERTY or not.
>
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>On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 that1guy@juno.com wrote:
>
>> I know why! Because it's "Standardized" and you have a "keyboard and word
>> processor" put two and two together and you have one mean lean cheating
>> machine. You can QUICKLy and extremly EASILY type in the test, bring it
>> home, and post it on every usenet newsgroup you can find. Get it? It's a
>> way of preventing people from mass coping the test.
>> 
>> that1guy@juno.com
>> 
>> On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:55:34 -0500 (EST) Baer William Bradford
>> <bwb@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes:
>> >I still don't under stand what is so evil about QWERTY keyboards that
>> >makes them not be allowed on standredized test. How does this give you 
>> >an
>> >advantage in MATH?
>> 
>
When I took the SAT, they let me use my TI-92. They said they just didn't
want people bringing in laptops with screens that fold up so that others can
see what you are typing. A portable qwerty keyboard is usually connected to
a laptop.
>


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