Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Russell reiter]

More efficiently. You can produce a lot more type if your not fixing
some cock up you could have avoided.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Scott Allen <mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 19:25, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> [...] the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow the
>> operator down so as not to jam up the keys.
>
> This often quoted myth is not true. It was designed to reduce jamming
> so the operator could type FASTER.
> <http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html>
>
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