Numbers on keyboard
Numbers on keyboard
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This may seem like an odd question....
Why are the numbers arranged differently on a computer keyboard, to those on a telephone or fax machine????
Why are the numbers arranged differently on a computer keyboard, to those on a telephone or fax machine????





RE: Numbers on keyboard
Additionally, the first touch tone phones were required to be backward compatible with pulse connections, which are slower than touch tone. This being the case, the keypad arrangement must be sufficiently different to ensure that fast-fingered bookkeepers would not much things up.
The QWERTY keyboard was designed specifically to make it difficult to type fast, since the initial typewriters' mechanical response was slow enough that they would jam if typing speed was too fast.
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RE: Numbers on keyboard
RE: Numbers on keyboard
http://web.mit.edu/jcb/www/Dvorak/
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