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'Typewriter' and the QWERTY keyboard
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Started conversation Mar 22, 2001
According to the New Hacker's Dictionary (see tuxedo.org), the placement of the word 'typewriter' on the top row was deliberate: it allowed particularly quick typing of the word for demonstration purposes.
'Typewriter' and the QWERTY keyboard
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Mar 22, 2001
For heaven's sakes! See link 1 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A523766
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