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TechStuff Classic: TechStuff Tackles Typewriters

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The Keyboard Layout Problems

The keyboard lay out is designed to kind of slow you down and not necessarily be intuitive, where one letter follows another the way you would anticipate. If a user type too quickly, a the letters would jam up. The levers would cross one another. They get stuck. Then you'd have to unstick the levers, get them all back in place and start again. Another one is just that the printing bars themselves the they wanted to separate out letters that would be a common combinations. So t, an anh not sat tight together.

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