Keyboard's+past

The next one was keypunches... The name Querty was named after the first six characters on the top alphabetic line of the keyboard. It was designed for mechanical typewriters and was actually designed to slow typists down to avoid jamming the keys. (Another keyboard design which has letters positioned for speed typing is the Dvorak keyboard ) lThe first typewriter ended up looking like a sewing machine because its engineers made it based on their experiences with sewing machine. lThe idea of a machine that could write went back to the time in 1714. The purpose of these inventions was to help those that are blind to read and learn to emboss the letters so that they could feel the letters without sight vision. Earlier computer keyboards had been based either on teletype machines or keypunches. There were many electromechanical steps in transmitting data between the keyboard and the computer that slowed things down. With VDT technology and electric keyboards, the keyboard's keys could now send electronic impulses directly to the computer and save time. By the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, all computers used electronic keyboards and VDTs.
 * The Origin**
 * l**The invention of the computer keyboard starts with the invention of the type writer by Christopher Sholes who also designed the arrangement of characters of the keyboard called the Querty keyboard. [|origins][[image:teletype.png caption="teletype machine"]]