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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (54515)4/4/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: IceShark  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
tines stuck together if they typed too fast, so the characters were arranged to slow down their typing.

BB, I can't believe you wrote that. Slowing them down too much would be pretty stupid wouldn't it? QWERTY was developed so that the most used sequential keystrokes were separated as best as possible to minimize the contact/collision zone.

Regards, Ice
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