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To: rlmorel

“I found that on a computer keyboard, there are combinations of letters and words that I scream through, and it can’t be done on a regular typewriter that way...you have to be more “consistent”.”

The arrangement of the keys (QWERTY) was an attempt to put the most-often-typed-together letters far enough apart so as to slow down the typist and avoid jams.


91 posted on 05/05/2016 8:18:25 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite
No, not true.

The arrangement of characters on the QWERTY keyboard was to speed up transcription from American (not International) Morse.

Check out article, The Origin of QWERTY.

122 posted on 05/05/2016 11:03:33 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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