Klarinet Archive - Posting 001223.txt from 1999/03

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: QWERTY keyboard - why
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:30:57 -0500

No, the change was acctualy introduced by the same inventor who made the
mechanism much less prone to seizing up. He had trouble because the
typewriter was now capable of beating the best copyist, so he redesigned the
keyboard to make it more acceptable in the workplace (i.e. slower but more
reliable).

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausman@-----.com]
Subject: RE: [kl] re: QWERTY keyboard - why
>
As I understood the story, the design of the keyboard was INDEED to slow
down the typist, but the reason was that the early klunky typewriter
mechanisms were very prone to getting keys stuck together when the typist
went too fast.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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