Klarinet Archive - Posting 001224.txt from 1999/03

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: QWERTY keyboard - why
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:15:51 -0500

Well, the article I read sounded very authoritative, but for a totally
different explanation may I refer you to the following web sight:

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

(The amount of information on the web never ceases to amaze me)

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee D. Hays [mailto:deehays@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] re: QWERTY keyboard - why

I hadn't read this particular theory. The articles that I have seen always
state something to the effect that the early typewriters, which of course
were mechanical, could not "react" fast enough to a really good typist so
they had to slow the typist down so the keys would not hang up on each
other. Having typed on a very old Remington as a child, I can believe it as
even with the QWERTY keyboard, the keys would still occasionally hang up.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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