The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the world. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented ...

Sholes and Glidden’s first prototype had a semi-sequential keyboard layout ... affordable typewriter. “You want to make sure [it’s] of standard make,” she responded.

but a typewriter itself, with a word processor open on the screen, it comes about as close as any mechanical keyboard really can. Especially with those Jade switches. I truly hope that QwerkyToys ...

Many of the failed machines were the competition for what became the dominant-style typewriter, the Underwood. The keyboard mirrors what a standard computer keyboard looks like today. "They tell a ...