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Old 11-17-2014, 09:46 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1 View Post
The arrangement of the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typists down to prevent key jams.
Not so. It was indeed designed to prevent key jams, but it did this by separating common English letter combinations. Slowing down the typist was no part of the design.
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