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typewriter keyboardSee qwerty keyboard. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Tenner picks up the slack by explaining, for instance, how touch-typing followed the development of the typewriter keyboard and how different types of footwear affect a walker's gait. The archetypal example, cited by nearly all adherents of the lock-in hypothesis, is the standard typewriter keyboard, whose QWERTY layout is supposedly vastly inferior to alternatives that were developed later. When they converted to electronic typesetting, Van Dyne had to learn to type in order to keep his job, since the Linotype keyboard differed from the typewriter keyboard used by the new electronic typesetters. |
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