QWERTY

[Colin Fine <colin@KINDNESS.DEMON.CO.UK>]

vecu'u le notci po'u <m0xiIeL-000HyNC@rattlesnake.com> la
bob@megalith.rattlesnake.com cu cusku di'e
>
>According to the various histories of the typewriter that I have read
>(all of which may be passing on legend, of course, but which favored
>QWERTY) Sholes started out with an alphabetical layout, then moved
>keys until his test texts, using single finger typing, did not cause
>jamming.  Neither he nor the companies that used his keyboard changed
>the layout when (quite soon) someone put a spring under each key so
>they would snap back quickly rather than slowly (in Sholes' design, the
>keys fell back under gravity).   If Sholes' test texts did not include
>words with `ert' in them, they were not tested.

Or 'er'. Or 're' Or 'rt'. Or 'tr' ?

i mi punai ve lisri le se tcila lopu finti le ciskyminji .i la'a de'u pe
do drata

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