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20 Cos Angeles (Times Part VThursday. January 10. 1985 Winter Health Calendar January March 1985 DVORAK: A Faster Typing Keyboard System Free Health Seminars has become granny with the fast fingers. January 14 Seven Steps to Health Enhancement David Hebei Ph D. Anthony Reading.

Ph 730-930 pm Nutrition and Breast Cancer David Heber. Ph 730-930pm CPR Training Baxter Larmoa UCLA Medical Center Para 21 30 love is taking him in hand. February meaic uo-kjx pm The Healing Heart How to Cope Norman Cousins, author ol The Healing Heart and Charles Kleemaa 730-930pm CPR Training Baxter Larmoa UCLA Medical Center Paramedic 700 lO CO pm. Salt Stress and Your High Blood Pressure Charles Kleeman M.D.. Anthony Reading.

Ph 730-9 30 Stress, the Silent Killer Lee Lipsker. Ph 7 30-9 30 pm CPR Training Baxter Larmoa UCLA Medical Center Paramedic ZOO lOOO pm. Exercise for a Healthy Heart Charles R. Kleeman. Sheila King.

S. 7 30-930 m. The Menopause and Osteoporosis: The Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Lindsey Henson. M.D. Andrea Rapkia 730-9 30 p.m.

Consumer Health: Avoiding Quackery and Gimmicks David Heber. M.D. Ph.D. 730-9-30 p.m. Continued from Page 1 up with as a result of their studies ranked right up there with Newton and his figs.

But the logic of the unconventional keyboard is flawless. On the home row. where the typist's fingers are positioned, the left hand rests on the vowels A-O-E-U-I and the right hand on the frequently used consonants D-H-T-N-S. 'Ten of the 13 most commonly used letters in the English language are on the home row of Dvorak, as opposed to three on the home row of the other system," Russell said. "This means that 70 of the words regularly used in English can be typed on Dvorak's home row, compared with 32 on QWERTY.

"Not only that, but we took 200,000 names from the Blue Cross-Blue Shield rolls and discovered that roughly the same percentages applied." Supporters of the alternate keyboard maintain that whereas it takes more than 50 hours of studying QWERTY to reach 40 words a minute (roughly 60 words per minute is required to become a secretary in most offices), it takes only 18 hours to attain 40 words a minute via Dvorak. Little did the originator realize that years down the road was mass popularity of personal computers: With some of these, the flick of a switch can change the keyboard from the QWERTY to the Dvorak system. (If the typist chooses to do so, he or she can move interchan-geablecaps on the individual keys so that the letter corresponds to what is actually being typed. Owners such as executives having to use a keyboard for the first time are finding the Dvorak one easier to learn and more productive to use, Russell said. "I went to the patent office and found that about 275 typewriter keyboards have been patented since 1870," Russell said.

"Only two are still in any significant use." In 1975, the year that Dvorak died, one of his disciples made her first appearance in the Guinness book. Blackburn has been in it ever since. The one-time problem student 11 25 March 6 11 18 "After I did so poorly with typing in high school, I went to a business college in Kansas City," Blackburn said here last week while en route to the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As an experiment, a couple of typewriters at the college had been converted to a new keyboard, and the student figured she had nothing to lose by trying to learn on one of them. Within a year she was exceeding 90 words a minute.

Now 64 years old, she has made a living at a typewriter ever since. She is currently in the Salem, office of an insurance company and goes on the road on behalf of software publisher Scarborough Systems. Her record is maintaining 150 words a minute for 50 minutes (37,500 strokes). She said she recently reached 196 w.p.m., and is submitting that for the next edition. All because, nearly half a century ago, someone did a little unlocking with a few keys.

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