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Qwerty keyboard

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@ntlworld.com>

10/7/2002 6:49:07 PM

HI Carl,

> Oh, the "typewriter" theory is definitely a lemon. But this
> article did remind me of another important reason why QWERTY
> wasn't for slowing typists down: touch-typing hadn't been
> invented yet!

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html

Thanks, nice link. Says he actually invented the qwerty layout
to speed up typing!

Also fun looking at some of the historical keyboards in the
site it links to at the end, such as the circular arc ones.

Thanks.

Robert