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Originally Posted by jkcampbell730
I found this:
"According to legend, this layout, known as QWERTY for its first six letters, helped keep mechanical typewriters' metal arms from colliding and jamming as people typed. Some people question this story whether its true or not, the QWERTY pattern had long been a standard by the time computer keyboards came around."
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I can't get that theory to work out in my head. Why would they have to change the order of the keys, when they could simply rearrange the layout of the types.
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on that show 'modern marvels' they said that old style typewriters couldnt move as fast as people, so the letters had to be scrambled to slow people down. so yeah you guys are all right.
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I suppose they didn't take the phenomenon of adaptation into account.
06-05-2008, 10:33 PM
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