2, have we not reverted to an alphabetical layout? Aside from issues of familiarity and muscle memory, whenever anybody has tried to come up with alternative layouts (such as Dvorak’s AOEUIDHTNS arrangement from 1932) they have not proven to provide any significant advantages over QWERTY. The obvious question is why, despite the popularity of Standard Typewriter No.
When computer keyboards were implemented, over 80 years later, the QWERTY layout was so ubiquitous that there was no question about how the keyboard should be laid out.Įngraving of the Remington Standard Typewriter No. It was the first mass-produced typewriter and was so successful it became the template for not only all future Remington machines, but almost every other typewriter since. 2 provided a major improvement over the original, as it could type both upper- and lower-case letters. It did not prevent tangling altogether, but it reduced the problem enough for the designed to be used in the production model, the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer, which was made by weapons manufacturer Remington in 1874.ĭespite the fact it did not sell very well, Remington decided to keep the layout for the S&G Type-Writer’s successor, the 1878 Remington Standard Typewriter No. Sholes based his separation of letter pairings on a study by teacher Amos Densmore, but the overall layout was apparently dictated by the existing mechanical linkage inside the prototype machine. He did this to prevent the metal type bars getting tangled when typing common key pairings, such as TH. It was Sholes who decided to arrange the letters in the QWERTY order we know today.
One of the earliest designs for a mechanical writing machine was the 1868 “Type-Writer” by Milwaukee newspaper printer, Christopher Latham Sholes and his associates Carlos Glidden and Samual W. For my first post in the Legacy of the Typewriter series I’m going to talk about the most obvious thing about typewriters and keyboards, the QWERTY layout.
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This week I’m going to talk about these limitations, how to work around them and how to avoid the pitfalls you may encounter.
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These limitation range from the layout of the letters, the punctuation marks that are available and even how we use the keyboard itself. In this series of posts I am going to look at some of these limitation and how to overcome them - if possible. The computer keyboard, the tool with which us writers make a living, is hamstrung by its genes, genes it inherited from the humble typewriter.
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