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raden wrote:
It was a very practical solution to a very serious problem. When
typewriters were first made, there was a real problem with people typing
too fast and the striking key getting caught up with the returning key.
The QWERTY layout was a solution to slow down typing and thus stop
typewriters getting stuck.

I'd been told it was to space out the letters so they were less likely to
get jammed - ie no common ones together.

Think the speed you type is down to skill.

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In message , ":::Jerry::::"
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And for your next 'Starter for Ten', who was the ruddy idiot who designed
the QWERTY key-board ?!..

He wasn't an idiot.

It was a very practical solution to a very serious problem. When
typewriters were first made, there was a real problem with people typing
too fast and the striking key getting caught up with the returning key.
The QWERTY layout was a solution to slow down typing and thus stop
typewriters getting stuck.

Of course, now that technology has moved on, it's a PITA, but it was a
good idea at the time


For gawd sake ! Can't you lot see a rhetorical question when you see it ?...

Well, answer it yourself then

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B&Q Stockport today - all been removed - told they are no longer
offering cut to your own length cables.

(You'll have to buy the pre-cut and waste what you don't need)

Who doesn't understate the length they have cut at the checkout?
Or am I the sole cause of B&Q's new policy?

Oh, so it was you.........

Now if B&Q employed people who knew what a ruler is for.....

Actually given their policy of employing older people, they might be one of
the few places that do !!!!

A ruler is someone like a King, Queen or Tony Blair. The word you need is a Rule. :-) or so I was taught.