Re: [OT] Keyboards (was: American English translation of character names)

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 12:24:28 EST

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    Doug Ewell scripsit:

    > This was the standard typewriter arrangement, which in turn was actually
    > the reason why that pair (and others) differs by only one bit in ASCII.

    Correct. It made the electromechanical design of Teletypes much easier to do.
    However, it was the standard *manual* typewriter keyboard. When IBM started
    making Selectrics, they introduced the apostrophe/quote key on the home row
    and remapped the shifted digits to pretty much the U.S. standard computer
    keyboard today. 

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