QWERTY anyone ?
For those of us who are using a US or Arabic keyboard, you will notice the letters QWERTY in the top row of letters in your keyboard. That makes your keyboard called QWERTY keyboard. Now there are attempts to introduce a a new keyboard system that arranges the keys ABCD instead of QWERTY.
Now here is the funny part, is why was the keyboard arranged this way? Well it goes back to the days of typewriters, where keys that could run after each other are seperated so that the “typebars” or “hammers” that press the key won’t stuck or collapse with each other. As well, it was meant to alternate keys between hands to make you type faster (although there are many single handed words such as “monopoly” and “stewardesses”.
That made me wonder what we would call the arabic keyboard ? would it be ضصثقفغ ?
Actually the Arabic keyboard is mainly identified with the كمنت شسيب row which
is the middl row not the upper one.
but you know you can set your own keyboard map, right? and in arabic, which goes righ to left the keyboard will be
دجحخهع
دبشة
I never knew that keyboards were categorized like that … not bad!
My hubby uses the Dvorak keyboard, and is really fast on it. We have to switch each time.
Intresting information… it is intresting to know too that the first email to be sent ever back in October 1971 had the following text : “QWERT”
It was sent by Ray Tomlinson, i guess he was so bussy to write “Test” or “Hello World” :) so he just pressed on the first 4 or 5 key’s :)
Dvorak? as in the musician? These letters fall in where the “QWERTY” do on my keyboard? Interesting coincidence!
I just wanna say how inconvenient it is for one to switch interfaces (Input devices: keyboards, keypads and mice … And output devices: monitor and … just that! Dunno what else!). I don’t wanna have to get used to using stuff when I was doing fine with an older setting! So annoying!
What puzzles me most is how people manage to use those miniature keyboards! I like ‘em big and spacious! I’m using a 10-years-old MS Natural Keyboard (the one with the keys split into two sections by a seperator that has the LEDs) And boy isn’t the largest I’ve seen!