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Wow.

No PcCustomizer I didnt know that. You are the man! Thank you for sharing that information with us. We need more users like you around the message boards to help livein things up.

See, when people started typing they would go so fast that the mechanical keys would jam up on top of each other a cause the user to untangle

Actually it's a simple mechanical problem....the keys were set so that the likelihood of conflicting [tangling] keys was reduced.

It was nothing to do with the speed of 'typing'...but the simultaneous double keystroke [of any combination] that could cause a clash...in other words...the speed of hitting keys, not the speed of textual, grammatical typing.

The mechanics of a 'hammer' keyboard were always a limiting factor to typing speed, no matter how obscurely the keys were placed, hence the later adopted daisy-wheel and 'magic ball' systems that restricted the typist to one key at a time....no matter how fast he typed.

The reality is that no matter what order the keys are placed most synchronous keystrokes will jam them...

Interesting input.

Thank you for sharing that with me.
Jafo- You just know everything!

Your so Qwerty. lol
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1. Jafo does know everything
2. Jafo never sleeps
3. There have been other keyboard layouts, but none have really caught on enough to dethrone the QWERTY layout, even Microsoft ( a group of folks who know almost as much as Jafo) designed a QWERTY alternative, but it never gained much popularity.

Ever wonder why the dial pad on a touch tone phone is an inverted version of the Ten Key pad?

I'll bet Jafo knows!

well, thats a given... fer sure, fer sure!

OmniJafo is everywhere and knows all, see's all!

Ever wonder why the dial pad on a touch tone phone is an inverted version of the Ten Key pad?

Well, is there going to be a answer or was this suppose to be funny.
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Trouble is that it's quite hard to find keyboards with alternative layouts. And if you do find one, they're usually more expensive than a regular qwerty one.

Ofcourse you could always swap the keys of your keyboard, but I've never been much of a deconstructor.

Koasati, pray tell......

Mess up on the phone pad a lot. Who did that?

When touch tone dialing first came out, Ten Key operators could really fly on a dial pad laid out like the Ten Key pads, and the swithching equipment couldn't keep up. The pad was inverted to slow those folks down.

I know it slows me down and if not I get to talk to the nicest people that I don't know.

Keyboards designed for other languages than english have often a slightly different layout. It is always fun to watch my visitors trying to find certain letters and puntuation signs on my Swiss keyboard.

And Csurfside/PCcustomer, why did you answer your own post?

Yes, while English language countrie uses the QWERTY keyboard, most French countries for example use the AZERTY keyboard. Their name come from the first 6 letters on the first row.
Indeed, as Jafo explained it, the QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes. Its particularity was that it displaced the most frequently used letters in the English language at opposite ends of the keyboard, in order to prevent the typebars to cross over and jam too much.

And Csurfside/PCcustomer, why did you answer your own post?

I suppose it was more of a statement than an answer!

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