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On 02/12/2016 04:41 PM, Don Y wrote:

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BTW, The "0" is STILL in the wrong place on phone keypads and computer
keyboards.

And telephone keypads are arranged "upside down" (almost)
from numeric keypads!


I think that's for the same reason computer keyboards have the letters
in that weird QWERTY layout. It's to slow down users, making them
compatible with the hardware.

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