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Post by Idéfix Mon May 06, 2013 7:18 pm

I recently asked a question about the reasons behind the not very intuitive layout of the QWERTY keyboard. It now looks like my answer was wrong after all. Read on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/qwerty-keyboard_n_3223611.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
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Post by Seva Lamberdar Mon May 06, 2013 7:46 pm

"Why aren't the letters on the keyboard in alphabetical order?" asked every child ever when presented with a keyboard. Most of us were taught that the man who invented the keyboard created the QWERTY design to slow typists down. The faster someone typed, the more often the typewriter jammed, so Christopher Scholes put common letters in hard-to-reach spots.

This popular theory was just debunked. According to a new story in The Smithsonian, the QWERTY keyboard was actually created based on the advice of telegraph operators. The first keyboards were being used by telegraph operators to translate morse code, and the keyboards were built for that.

>>> The same reason for the design of QWERTY system, basically to avoid jamming of the mechanical system during "typing" of commonly used letters, i.e. have the bars / rods for those frequently typed letters separated physically by distance.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bYp0igbxHcmg1G1J-qw0VUBSn7Fu

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