[Amps] K8RI wins QWERTY

[Roger]

On 8/18/2010 9:54 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> "Correct as usual," King Friday.
>
> Now, can you i.d. the above quote??????????????????
>
I can, but I'm too old for Mr Rogers and I had to look it up.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:33:20 -0400
> > From: sub1 at rogerhalstead.com
> > To: amps at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [Amps] Not free QWERTY
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/18/2010 11:51 AM, Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> > > ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:37:04 -0700, "Jim Thomson"<jim.thom at telus.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Can anyone tell why the QWERTY plan is in use?
> > > REPLY:
> > >
> > > Legend has it that QWERTY was designed to slow down typists in the
> > > early days of typewriters. The old typewriters were prone to jam if
> > > the typist went too fast and QWERTY required more finger movement than
> > > other layouts, thus slowing them down.
> > >
> > > That may or may not be true, but I have heard it all my life.
> > >
> > All I can find, and even what we were taught in college (wayyyy back
> > when...) confirms it, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. <:-))
> > OTOH at 70 WPM it was quite easy to jam up a mechanical typewriter,
> > often even at 60. A good typist (keyboarder now days) had to pace
> > themselves or they were forever having to reach up and release the 
> levers.
> >
> > I think I'm letting my age show in knowing this.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Roger (K8RI)
> >
> > > 73, Bill W6WRT
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