Re: trivia: origin of names for UPPER() and LOWER()


<joel-garry@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >and who remembers why the QWERTY layout was invented?
>
> Ooh, Ooh, I do, I do!
>
> To make the typists as slow as possible!
>
> (actually a myth, see http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html )
>
> I have a portable fold-up typewriter from the late 40's or early 50's
> down in my basement somewheres, if I didn't sell it at the swap meet
> (can't remember).
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/12/ipod-giveaway-7-steve-jobs#comments
>

good reference... i remember hearing a hybrid of the reason: 'to avoid
clashes by slowing down typists' -- so sounds like it was more like 'to
avoid clashes that slowed down typists'

the article unearthed another gem -- the daisy wheel. now here's real
trivia... how many decibels was the average daisy wheel printer capable of
reaching?

++ mcs


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