 | | QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters) —Fredrik Glöckner
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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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| | | | | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) 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 (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters) —James Powell
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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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| | | | | | | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters) —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) That's cool! I never noticed that ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Just for fun, here are a couple one-liners which spit out a list of words that can type typed on a single hand using a QWERTY keyboard... Left hand: cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcvb]*$' Right hand: cat /usr/dict/words | grep -i (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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