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they are placed in a way that letters wich are often side by side in a word have a maximum of distance between each. the ieda had Christopher Latham Sholes .
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I don't know what that's mean to mean - if anything - but the real answer is that computer keyboards follow the standard set on mechanical typewriters. On these, setting the letters in an apparently random manner lessened the risk of fast copy-typists striking two keys at once, which would result in the corresponding type-bars jamming as they approached the impact point. Since most early office computer-users had been trained on manual typewriters it made sense to follow the same basic layout and indeed some of the terms pertaining to the machines, such as "Line Feed / Carriage Return."
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∙ 13y agoThe keys on the keyboard are in different areas other than just a,b,c,etc. because it was designed to a human and how they would see it.
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All of the keys on my keyboard are mixed up how can i fix this?
Get another keyboard.
Why are the keys of the keyboard are all mixed up?
someone made it that way
Why are the keys all mixed up a keyboard?
i thinks it would easy and quickly to type.
Why are all the keys on the keyboard all mixed up?
Rumor has it that originally it was set up in such a way that it became easy for people to type quickly. But this jammed the typewriters, so they came up with the mixed up qwerty keyboard. But in fact I'm not super sure.
What are the five major groups of keys on a standard keyboard?
The five major groups of keys on a standard keyboard are:The typewriter keys (letters and numbers)The function keys (F1, F2, etc.)The numeric keypad (numbers organized like a calculator keypad)The insert, home, page up keys and their oppositesThe up, down, left right navigation arrow keys
How many keys are there in the keyboard?
104 keys in the keyboard
Were there different keys on the typewriter then on the keyboard?
The computer keyboard is the same as the typewriter keyboard. The typewriter did have special keys that were not on the keyboard, like the tab keys that indented. The keyboard also has extra function keys that were not on the typewriter.
What are the keyboard symbols called?
Keys - as in a board of keys = keyboard
How may keys are there in a keyboard?
104 keys r there in a keyboard
What are the five parts of keyboard?
There are more than five parts of the keyboard. Four parts of the keyboard are the typing keys, the numeric keypad, function keys, and control keys. The last part of the keyboard is the extra keys.
How many notes do a keyboard have?
this answer-"well the keyboard i have has 45 notes on it and i just checked so it is the correct answer. " is WRONG! The amount of keys on a Keyboard varies from keyboard to keyboard. A keyboard could have about as little as 5 keys, and as big as 88 keys. A full keyboard, or a piano has 88 keys
What are Basic keys of keyboard?
what are the basic keys of a keyboard
