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Re: Typewriter

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From: Barry Bouwsma
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:47
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In a previous article, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) says:

>
>I read somewhere that the reason the letters of the word `typewriter'
>are all on the top row of the keyboard is so that shop-assistants could
>demonstrate early prototype typewriters easily. 

I got really bugged out how I couldn't find where the letters are
cuz when I learned the alphabet it wasn't like the way typewriters
have it and I got really annoyed cuz everybody knows that B follows
A, not S, so one night I pulled off all the keys on the computers
in the lab and put them back on the right way so I wouldn't be
having to look around to find where the N key is because it would
be after the M and not after the B and it all made sense and I could
use them and everything but they won't let me into the computer lab
anymore.
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