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Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

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The DIA TENSOR Is a Better Keyboard Layout Than the QWERTY One

A guy named George Canfield Blixenderfer did some analysis all the way back in 1892 and figured out that there was an optimal way to design a keyboard. By analyzing the English language he found that if he put d-h-i-a-t-e-n-s-o and r into the middle row 85% of all English words would use those letters. There's another one called the DIVORAC simplified keyboard and apparently this one's still popular it was created in the 30sYeah I should move on from the QWERTY to the DIA TENSOR yeah you set me up so there's other keyboard layouts I hadn't heard of D

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