keannu
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Is "sticking together" several keys sticking to each other or keys sticking to the bottom of the keyboard? How can keys stick to each other? I can't get it.
ex)Back in the 1870’s, Sholes & Co., a leading manufacturer of typewriters at the time, received many complaints from users about typewriter keys sticking together if the operator went too fast. In response, management asked its engineers to figure out a way to prevent this from happening. The engineers discussed the problem and then one of them said, “What if we slowed the operator down? If we did that, the keys would not jam together nearly as much.” The result was to have an inefficient keyboard configuration. For example, the letters ‘O’ and ‘I’ are the third and sixth most frequently used letters in the English language,and yet the engineers positioned them on the keyboard so that the relatively weaker fingers had to depress them. This ‘inefficient logic’ pervaded the keyboard, and solved the problem of keyboard jam-up.
ex)Back in the 1870’s, Sholes & Co., a leading manufacturer of typewriters at the time, received many complaints from users about typewriter keys sticking together if the operator went too fast. In response, management asked its engineers to figure out a way to prevent this from happening. The engineers discussed the problem and then one of them said, “What if we slowed the operator down? If we did that, the keys would not jam together nearly as much.” The result was to have an inefficient keyboard configuration. For example, the letters ‘O’ and ‘I’ are the third and sixth most frequently used letters in the English language,and yet the engineers positioned them on the keyboard so that the relatively weaker fingers had to depress them. This ‘inefficient logic’ pervaded the keyboard, and solved the problem of keyboard jam-up.