> Look at the dreadful arrangement of keyboards that we're stuck
> with, designed to slow down typists so they couldn't go faster than
> early typewriter mechanisms could handle

A company here sells a Maori keyboard, complete with macrons
and paua (abalone) colouring

http://www.kitereo.com/keyboard.html

It wouldn't be that difficult to switch from UK/US QWERTY/Dvorak
or whatever the user wants. A secretarial school here used to teach
Dvorak, don't know if they still do. The only snag is the overlay, and
although keys can be swapped around they're really designed to be
in the tiers as made originally. If you use the same k/b all the time it's
worth the effort to re-arrange it how you want, and get used to the new
feel, but a touch-typing temp is probably going to find QWERTY most
places

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