This story of "slowing down the typist"is another urban myth-
The arrangement was developed in keep the different letter arms from
interfering with each other and "clashing' or jamming. I learned this when
on a team in the early 80s to study a more "efficient" computer keyboard
arrangement.
Here is a link for those that care-
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html
Dallas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Moyer" <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>
> To: "Healey list" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:39 AM
> Subject: RE: New to British Cars
>
>
> > Qwerty is the name of the common keyboard layout of letters. I assume
> > this means that the site is expecting the input from a qwerty keyboard
> > and not some other layout. The "qwerty" comes from the letters at the
> > top left row of the keyboard. Since humans could type faster than early
> > manual typewriters could respond the qwerty keyboard was actually
> > designed to slow people down and be awkward. A triumph of human
> > engineering that hangs on just because it's become standard.
> >
> > Bill Moyer, BJ7, no keyboard aboard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Trmgafun [mailto:Trmgafun@arczip.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:14 AM
> > To: Bob Haskell; Frenken, Eric
> > Cc: healeys@autox.team.net; Healeys
> > Subject: Re: New to British Cars
> >
> > Sorry if I caused problems with your email Eric, but for some reason
> > after setting up my account through the use of majorcool, I was not able
> > to successfully send to the list using the usual healeys@autox.team.net
> > address. Using healeys-qwerty@autox.team.net gets me through to the
> > list, so I've been using it. I have no idea what qwerty means. May if we
> > translated it from British to American it might mean "secret address"
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.....or eyes in this case.
> >
> > Scott Helms
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Haskell" <rchaskell@earthlink.net>
> > To: "Frenken, Eric" <efrenken@lctax.de>
> > Cc: "Trmgafun" <Trmgafun@arczip.com>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: New to British Cars
> >
> >
> > > Frenken, Eric wrote:
> > >> Scott, how do you guys address the healey list. Your mail apparently
> > >> reaches all list members without using the list server. I would
> > prefer
> > >> getting my healey-list-mails thru majordomo, as one of my outlook
> > rules
> > >> moves these mails to a special directory. Just my thoughts, others
> > might
> > >> think different.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Eric,
> > >
> > > Looks like Scott is sending his emails to
> > "healeys-qwerty@autox.team.net"
> > > instead of the usual "healeys@autox.team.net". So you can add rule to
> > put
> > > the emails addressed to "healeys-qwerty" into your healey folder.
> > >
> > > I don't know what the "qwerty" does, but the mail does get delivered.
> > >
> > > Bob
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