
Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance
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The QWERTY Legend
Well again he he made an improvement and he found that they were more likely to jam with the more frequently used letters next to each other so he did he did some thinking about it and decided that if I space these things out the most common two-letter combinations then in theory we should be getting fewer jams sure it'll happen every now and then but at least we can reduce the number of jams. That's not the only alternative right what the other kind of keyboard well no there there are quite a few other alternatives to the QWERTY right the the layout of it rightYeah okay and by the way what you just said was the legend from what I understand well I thought he did not look
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