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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Better brush up on keyboard maintenance, and make out a list of stores that deal with used computer parts. You should be able to plan ahead and have a QWERTY keyboard for the rest of your life. You might even have some to pass down to future generations if you play your cards right. Just hope that USB remains a backward compatible standard. 
They apparently designed the QWERTY keyboard to slow typists down to prevent machines from bungling up. Don't you want to type faster? |
This sounds like one of those stories you hear from the onion.
At my peak I was typing 85 wpm, and I can't see that getting any faster unless they hook up a mind interface.
So I don't know how 'they' are but as long as there is a free market their will be plenty of qwerty keyboards.
Haha just found one of those 'new' keyboards, or at least this variant
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From reading the site, basically it boils down to people are better at hunt and pecking, ahhh progress.