On 13 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 08:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We all know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow us down > > I could swear I read somewhere that this was a UL, but I can't find a > reference.
I always believed it to be true but maybe not.... http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/qwerty/qwerty.shtml Or maybe yes.... http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltypewriter.htm http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/history.html http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/history.html http://njnj.essortment.com/keyboardhisto_rdqo.htm Sourced from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=qwerty+history+why Who knows which of these to trust. YMMV. Simon. -- "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." - Steven Wright
