Who made the keyboard?

jkcampbell730

jkcampbell730

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Can anyone tell me or show me a link to who made and how the keyboard was made? Why are all the letters scattered?

I was having this discussion with friends at work and we decided it had something to do with ergonomical correctness. I tried to find a pattern with vowels and consonants, but couldn't find one. I really wasn't able to find a pattern at all really.
 
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 it’s true or not, the QWERTY pattern had long been a standard by the time computer keyboards came around."
 
yeah one other thing i heard was that the typewriters were slow but to try to show off there speed they put the leters for typewriter on the top so they could quicly type it out to show off the speed
 
Ehhh...i know what you are trying to say and all, but think about it, if it was changed, it would be HELL for us.
 
jkcampbell730 said:
"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 it’s true or not, the QWERTY pattern had long been a standard by the time computer keyboards came around."
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Yup yup... That's what I heard quite a while ago in school. I guess most of you haven't really used a type-writer, eh? ;) I only have because my mom had one a while back and I enjoyed playing with it as a child. It was quite easy to jam up those arm while pounding away on the keyboard :rolleyes:
 
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.
 
The pattern actually is so that the most commonly used letters are in the most problematic places for your fingers. (puts the letters on the weakest fingers, and the worst spots...) This is for the reasons that are stated above; the machines couldn't keep up without jamming.
 
what you are looking for is DVORAK or one of the variations or it. They make some super ergonomic keyboards based on that layout.
 
jkcampbell730 said:
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 it’s 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.

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. :)
 
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