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From: hanc...
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:20

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On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 12:51:58 AM UTC-4, Charles Richmond wrote:

> > Therefore, the qwerty keyboards was brought in to slow things down?

> Stories are many concerning the QWERTY keyboard...

In 1956, Western Union evaluated the Dvorak keyboard.  While it
did seem to improve efficiency, conversion and retraining was 
deemed to be impractical.  WUTR article, including layout:
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/10-1/p043.htm

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