From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houca!hogpc!houxm!houxz!hocda!spanky!burl!rcj
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: keyboard setup
Article-I.D.: burl.136
Posted: Fri Apr 29 08:13:08 1983
Received: Mon May  2 05:20:51 1983
References: <1967@arizona.UUCP>

Would like to clarify the previous article in which the author stated that
the current keyboard layout was set up that way because
the most frequently used keys tended to jam.  It WAS correct,
and the reason that the keys jammed WAS because they were
mechanical, but a better explanation is that the typists on
the original Linotype machines could type faster than the
machine could react!!!  Therefore the wierd layout -- an
interesting example of workers being too productive for their
own good!-- 

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