Abbreviation help
I am relatively new to this forum and I am learning a lot. A separate post referred to a dually truck as having training wheels. I'm going to use that a lot in the future. I can make out most o...
Forum Discussion
vic46 wrote:TenOC wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:Johno02 wrote:
...Does anyone else know why we use a qwerty keyboard, or why it was designed??
The story goes that in the old days of manual typewriters the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down typists. Essentially the typewriter keys would jam because they couldn't keep up with a skilled typist.
Wouldn't that then lead to the abbreviation DK?
Not so much slow down the typists, but so the keys that are most used are on different sides of the typewriter and thus travel in a different path thus preventing jams. The reason the keys on a telephone are different from the keys on an adding machine (computer now) was to slow down the accounts that use the adding machine all day long. The old telephone switching gear could not respond as fast as the accountants could dial.
I have a CA (CPA) designation and I have often wondered why the phone key pad is different from a calculator or computer keyboard. Now I know and it does make sense. The change could now be made but that would likely be equivalent to treason! Nobody likes change!
I heard that the reason the number keys on a calculator are different from a telephone had something to do with the fact that telephones advancing from rotary dial phones and the numbers, and therefore letters went a certain way around the phone.
Calculators were developed advancing from adding machines and the numbers on them were laid out a different way.
That is just what I heard. Don't know if it is true.
