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Why are the keys on typewriters arranged as they are?
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Because the typists on the original mechanical typewriters could type so fast that the arms with the letters on kept hitting each other. The modern typewriter keyboard was produced to slow up the rate of typing and protect the machinery. Of course that doesn't matter with word processors but now everyone is used to the current layout inertia stops a change to a more efficient pattern.
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