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In article <prk.665225992@winnie>, prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight) writes:
> All this talk of standard keyboards reminds me of the mess up around
> telephone and calculator keyboards.
> 
> Back in the mists of time, the CCITT, the telecoms standards body,
> set a standard layout for telephone keypads, with '1' at the top-left.
> 
> When pocket calculators came into existance, they seemed to standardise
> on a keyboard with '1' at the bottom-left, ie ignoring the CCITT standard.
> 
CCITT (or AT&T) ignored the long standing arrangement on mechanical
ten key calculators, which had the one key near the zero key, and
invented a new conflicting arrangement that put the nine key near
the oh key.  The calculators, with a lever to pull to work the works,
predate the transistor and all thought about non-rotary "dialing".

The new, electronic, calculator manufacturers stuck with the sensible
precedent.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com