8 July 2000: Clarified Intro some more.
2 July 2000: Added Fortress angle to Get Active! and tweaked Intro.
1 July 2000: My To-do pile has finally started to overflow onto the site. Added Get Active! and Alt-Keyboards pages. Link rot removal and minor edits on Intro and Switching pages. In the Unix page, added comment from Larry Pyatt about his xmodmap solution.
11 October 1999: Added PDF and text files to the German section on my non-English "Dvorak" page.
9 October 1999: Dropped in a link to a Swedish "Dvorak" on my non-English "Dvorak" page. Also added info about diacriticals in X-windows. Finally updated my Mac page (untouched since April '96) to mention that Dvorak is built into MacOS 8.5 and up. Added some info about login problems and keyboard switching to my Windows page. Added a note about PDFs choking to my Layout page.
11 September 1999: Dropped a quick announcement about Norsk Dvorak into my non-English "Dvorak" page.
18 May 1999: Added a one-paragraph review of the DvortyBoard to my hard-wired keyboard page. Updated the caution on my key labels page.
5 April 1999: Added a sentence about when to put off switching to my Pros and Cons and Training pages. Added a postscript to my Urban Legend page and finally linked that page from the top.
25 March 1999: On the Andrew Pimlott's Xmodmap page, encoded angle brackets in the perl script so the script can be copied and pasted from the page without losing a while parameter. Thanks to Rich Derr for catching this.
25 February 1999: On the new Non-English "Dvorak" page, added a link to Dr. Berlin's collection of PC keyboard utilities. Added more information and files for the Spanish Dvorak layout. Finally remembered to update the address and phone number on my Dvorak International page.
24 February 1999: On the new Non-English "Dvorak" page, added a link to Dvorak drivers that work with the Japanese double-byte character set (DBCS). Added a GIF of a proposed Spanish "Dvorak" layout. Added a note of caution to the keycaps page. Minor edit to the hardwire page.
20 February 1999: On the new Non-English "Dvorak" page, added Eric M. Wilson's input about generating diacriticals in Windows.
16 February 1999: Added info about creating Non-English "Dvorak" layouts. Included information about generating diacritical marks on the Macintosh.
26 December 1998: Much-needed updates to my XWindows support page.
18 December 1998: Added info about Windows CE to my DOS/Windows support page. Also added a little Windows 98 and NT 4.0 info.
13 December 1998: Added a nice layout diagram, including a printable PDF version. Updated info about hard-wired keyboards. Added info about changing or rearranging keyboard labels, including printable do-it-yourself labels. Did a little reorg on the Switch Your Computer page to make options a little clearer. Added a couple of titles to the training page.
6 December 1998: Finally fixed some link rot on the front page.
5 April 1997: Added a link for One-handed Dvorak.
3 April 1997 (PM): Reorganized the site, hopefully making it easier for readers to find different types of information quickly from the front page.
3 April 1997: Hurredly added several Dvorak links. Added a few words to my Dvorak International page. Fixed all pages so browser settings can't change text colors unless they also override my background. (Most user's won't notice, but one reader's browser was set for white text on the default background (my pattern), which came out white on almost-white.)
20 March 1997: Tweaked the Win3.1 procedure to make it clearer, I hope.
13 March 1997: Added missing steps to Win95 procedure. Took the opportunity to break that page up so you can see what its sections are. Threw mention of conversion possibility for IIe into Apple II page. Gave the "Ideal" typewriter a lick and a promise in the History section.
21 December 1996: Changes to the new Warp 4 information. Thanks to Giles Orr and Denis Cheong for verifying this stuff.
8 December 1996: Many changes that have been on hold pending completion:
12 September 1996: Important change: If you use the MS-DOS prompt in Windows, you must download and install Microsoft's GA0650.EXE Dvorak support file (or an equivalent DOS supplement). Otherwise the prompt reverts to QWERTY. Thanks to Alan Jaffray for pointing this out to me.
29 August 1996: Added an XWindows modemap for HP/UX thanks to Daniel Butler. Minor change to Amiga info thanks to Peter Seebach. Clarified intro to the Switch your Computer section and listed BeOS, thanks to Gary North and Gunnar Andersson, respectively. Gary says Northgate is in bankruptcy (again), but the link still works, so I'm leaving it for now.
12 August 1996: Put some more work into the Brief History section, with topical links to correspondence, which also has some new info. Added some training tips. Finally added a layout diagram. Added more links to the sources list.
3 June 1996: Added info about selecting Dvorak on an Apple IIGS or IIc computer; thanks to Matt Ackeret. Replaced Northgate phone number with a link (number was out of date and link may only be temporary); thanks to Bill Murray.
12 May 1996: Added an e-mail thread about dissenting opinions. Expanded and tried to clarify my Brief History. Rearranged the Switch Your Computer section. Added Shuford's Dvorak page to the sources list.
19 April 1996: Updated GA0650.EXE (Dvorak layouts for DOS) with a new version from ftp.microsoft.com that supports left- and right-handed Dvorak layouts in Windows 95. New version also claims to support some Windows NT versions (I don't recall if the old one did also).
9 April 1996: Updated link to SimTel on the DOS page. Added SGI Xdvorak to Xwindows page. Added Business Quiz section for grins. Added links to even more Dvorak sites.
6 April 1996: Updated my copy of the OS/2 Dvorak program to version 1.1. It fixes the brace key bug that affected some programs. Added a few words about Dvorak layout variations. Added a line about Windows installation disks. Slight change to download intro in the Macintosh page.
29 March 1996: Added an (unofficial) colorized logo to my Dvorak International information page.
16 March 1996: Added a mini book review. Explained logo. Added a couple of DOS TSRs. Added Xdvorak and more XWindows keysyms and info.
11 March 1996: Added color logo.
6 March 1996: Added backgrounds to pages. Updated some ftp site links. Added info about minor OS/2 Dvorak bug. Searched for and added links to more Dvorak sites.
25-27 February 1996: Major reorg. Broke out separate html documents for different systems, setting up downloads and adding info for several. Finally have an OS/2 Dvorak keymap, so there is a software solution for every popular system! Added a discussion about looking at the keys.
July, 1995: Initial version.
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Marcus Brooks