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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 11:57:54 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.
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 up solid without too much trouble, and I am not the worlds
best typist. Her Electric is much harder to jam up, but it is possible to do
so (key type, not dasy wheel type).
I'd go to a devorak keyboard, but then whenever I was not at home I would be
cursing madly :)
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