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I swear by my datahands.

I really wish Datahands were available for purchase. No one gets rid of them, and they aren't produced anymore (I tried emailing them numerous times before their site disappeared -- nothing). If anyone wants to sell a set, I'm buying!

Good luck with that. Depending on the condition they go $1500-2000+ on eBay these days.

After reading this thread, I dug my old set out of the garage, and I intend to sell them.

The Datahand is awesome. It does a lot of stuff very, very right. I was never really able to get up to speed on mine.

There's actually a hobbyist project to reproduce the Datahand right now over at geekhack.org

I'm in contact with olddatahands who started the project. I'll be helping in any way I can.

Datahands take some commitment, but they pay off big time. It took me about 3 weeks of using them at work before I became comfortable. I'm sure if I started learning to type on dvorak that would be lessened - I went all in and switched to the dvorak datahands and now I can't type on regular keyboards at all. They at least have to be dvorak.

Awesome. I'm looking forward to it.

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