Re: Lisp keyboard

From: M Jared Finder (jared_at_hpalace.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:49:55 -0800

skearney@accessbee.com wrote:
> When I was in boy scouts, as part of learning Morse code, I was told
> that the inventor of the typewriter originally put the letter 'e' under
> the left middle finger, just below its present position. The typist
> was often too fast and the print bars would jam. I heard the same
> story when I took a typing class. This led me to wonder if 't' might
> have been moved from the home row for the same reason. 'E is dit and T
> is dash, under middle and index the print bars would clash'.
> If e and t on the home row made the human 'typewriter' too fast for the
> machine, now that the machine can keep up, wouldn't it be a good idea
> to put these letters back where they belong?

I always thought that where A and S are on QWERTY used to have B and C,
making the second row BCDFGHJKL, the first half of the alphabet, sans
vowels. I have heard that the original keyboard layout was alphabetical.

But what does this have to do with Lisp?

   -- MJF