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Look up: QWERTY

  1. QWERTY
    QWERTY refers to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard layout (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts or APL keyboard. It is sometimes said that it was designed to slow down the typist, but this is wrong; it was designed to allow faster typing - under a constraint now long obsolete. In early typewriters, fast typing using nearby type-bars jammed the mechanism. So Sholes fiddled the layout to separate the letters of man…
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/A9

  2. QWERTY
    QWERTY is an abbreviation for first six keys from left on top alphabetic row of standard keyboard
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/N3

  3. Qwerty
    The standard design of keyboard where the first row of letters begins Q,W,E,R,T,Y. This style was designed around 75-100 years ago to combat the problem of the letter pins on typewriters getting stuck.
    Found on http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/q.html

  4. QWERTY
    (hardware) /kwer'tee/ (From the top left row of letter keys of most keyboards) Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts (e.g. "keyboard AZERTY" in french-speaking countries) or a space-cadet keyboard or APL keyboard. The …
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  5. QWERTY
    `QWERTY` is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1874 and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters. The asteroid 6600 Qwerty was named in its honour.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

  6. QWERTY
    `QWERTY` is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1874 and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters. The asteroid 6600 Qwerty was named in its honour.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

  7. QWERTY
    QWERTY refers to the first 6 letters on the top row of a standard keyboard. In mobile phone specification a QWERTY keyboard indicates the handset comes with a full keyboard on the handset, as opposed to the standard 12 key alphanumeric keypad
    Found on http://www.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-phone-te

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8 January 2009

This day in history:
Rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. In July 1940 a complete ban was put on the making or selling of iced cakes, and in September the manufacture of `candied peel` or `crystallised cherries` meant the death knell for the traditional wedding cake. On 1st December 1941 the Ministry of Food introduced the points rationing scheme for items such as canned meat, fish and vegetables at first. Everyone was given 16 points a month, later raised to twenty, to spend as wished at any shop that had the items wanted. read more

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