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'Typewriter' and the QWERTY keyboard

Post 1

Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat

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

Post 2

Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat

For heaven's sakes! See link 1 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A523766


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