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- From: ag786@yfn.ysu.edu (Barry Bouwsma)
- Subject: Re: Typewriter
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:47:10 GMT
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- In a previous article, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) says:
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- >
- >I read somewhere that the reason the letters of the word `typewriter'
- >are all on the top row of the keyboard is so that shop-assistants could
- >demonstrate early prototype typewriters easily.
-
- I got really bugged out how I couldn't find where the letters are
- cuz when I learned the alphabet it wasn't like the way typewriters
- have it and I got really annoyed cuz everybody knows that B follows
- A, not S, so one night I pulled off all the keys on the computers
- in the lab and put them back on the right way so I wouldn't be
- having to look around to find where the N key is because it would
- be after the M and not after the B and it all made sense and I could
- use them and everything but they won't let me into the computer lab
- anymore.
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