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Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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lugnet.publish
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:07:31 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> writes:
> > [...] where as QWERTY was designed to slow people down so their
> > typewriters wouldn't jam...
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> I don't think the original purpose of QWERTY was to _slow_ people
> down. Many mechanical typewriters can operate at hair raising speeds.
> What causes the typewriter "hammers" to jam is usually two subsequent
> letters from the same area of keyboard being pressed rapidly after
> each other. So the purpose of the QWERTY keyboard was, if I'm not
> mistaken, to make sure that two subsequent keys normally appear in
> different regions of the keyboard.
Hmm, I thought the original purpose of the QWERTY keyboard was to make sure
that, while giving a demo, the word TYPEWRITER could be plucked out using
all keys from the top row of letters. ;-)
--Todd
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 | | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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| (...) Yes, but in the process of making it slow down, you also make it into as inefficent as possable. (and have the keys as far from one another as is possible) My mom has a 70 year old _mechanical_ typewriter, and on a good day, I can still jam it (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I don't think the original purpose of QWERTY was to _slow_ people down. Many mechanical typewriters can operate at hair raising speeds. What causes the typewriter "hammers" to jam is usually two subsequent letters from the same area of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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