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Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:51:55 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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...
> >
> > 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. ;-)
That's cool! I never noticed that ;-)
-Shiri
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