Forum Overview :: Site Comments :: Yeah, and we suffer the results

[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote name="computer screen."]The precursor to the computer keyboard is a mechanical typewriter keyboard. It had fewer buttons and each button made a little ink-covered arm fly up and strike a piece of paper, leaving a letter-shaped indention with ink on it.[/quote] Yeah, and people typed on the keys very quickly, so much so they kept jamming the mechanism. So the American typewriter company rearranged the keyboard back in 1888, to put Q at the start of the keyboard. This says something about the power of an installed base, in that even today, more than 120 years later, we still use a keyboard designed to <i>slow people down</i> when typing![/quote]