Originally Posted by santa
That actually is not true.
Early typewriters were mechanical, and so slow that people could press keys faster than the machine could process them and the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow people down.
In theory, the Dvorak keyboard(s) provide a better design, but in practice most people have learned typing on qwerty keyboards and lack the patience to adapt to the new. Assuming they can find one to buy,
I have so many computers around here I'd need a dozen! And then, there are the laptops....
This sounds interesting because when I was a kid I knew someone who had a type writer. But I don't know exactly what a qwerty type writer is even though the letters qwerty are all in the same row on the top of my keyboard
