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From: gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Which Came First?
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In article <12785@accuvax.nwu.edu> johnp@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (John
Parsons) writes:

>When Touch*Tone first came out, I remember my father griping that the
>number pad was arranged differently from that of ten-key adding
>machines

>Does anyone remember why Bell chose to be different?  (I assume ten-key
>adders came first).

If Bell had arranged the keys in calculator order, the alphabet on the
keys wouldn't have followed in any logical way.


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