Thursday, December 11, 2008

History of Keyboards (layouts)

While lots has changed in the PC's and are still changing, the keyboard and its layout have remained the same for more than 100 years (and we hear that technology changes).

There are three keyboard layouts that are accepted universally, ofcourse the first being on almost all PC's

1. QWERTY layout.

2. DVORAK layout

3. MALT keyboard.

QWERTY layout was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873. DVORAK layout was invented by August Dvorak in the 1930, whereas MALT keyboard was devised by Lillian Malt.

image QWERTY

image DVORAK

image MALT

Switching from QWERTY to DVORAK is a matter of going to control panel->keyboard->changing layout, for MALT keyboards you will need additional hardware. It is more "ergonomical".

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