KEYBOARDING

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KEYBOARDING
IS..

• The Penmanship of the Computer Age

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KEYBOARDING
Simply means the way that you as a computer
operator enter information into the computer.
Correct Keyboarding is a skill that you acquire
to allow you to enter data in a more efficient
way. But..
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WHO decided which was the most efficient way
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Lets BACK up in time to 1872
ENTER Mr. Christopher Latham Sholes, one of the
three inventors of the typewriter

• The first machines keys jammed easily, and jams
  were hard to clear, so Sholes arranged the keys
  to avoid sequences that caused jams.

• He purposely arranged keys so that the old
  fashioned manualtypewriters would not have the
  commonly used keys together.

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Lets BACK up in time to 1872

• This allowed keys to spring back before they
  were needed again.

• His motive was to prevent jams rather than
  promote fast keystrokes.

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It was called the "Sholes Glidden Type Writer,"
and it was produced by the gunmakers E. Remington
Sons in Ilion, NY from 1874-1878
The original Type Writer was heavily decorated
with colorful decals and gold paint. A foot
treadle was provided for the carriage return. If
you think it all looks a lot like an old sewing
machine, you're right.
The First TYPEWRITER
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• His HOME ROW keys (in the middle) can be used
  to make 120 words

• Despite other attempts to rearrange the keyboard,
  the QWERTY arrangement has lasted over 100 years.

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Moving FORWARD from 1872 to 1920s through 1930
ENTER Mr. August Dvorak

• He was an efficiency expert . His keys are in an
  order that eliminated most of the movement
  between rows by placing the most commonly used
  keys in the middle HOME ROW

• On this simplified keyboard, fingers need only
  travel 1 mile to do a typical day's typing on
  QWERTY, fingers travel 16 to 20 miles to do the
  same work!

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SO, why learn to keyboard?
What is the use of having a machine capable of
working at lightening speed if the info it needs
TRICKLES in like molasses in January. (from ,
Most Crucial Computing Skill Erik Sandberg 1984
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Sometimes KEYBOARDING is called TYPING. TYPING
was the term used when you worked on a
TYPEWRITER. When you TYPE on a TYPEWRITER what
you type appears on the paper INSTANTLY.
Typing focuses on OUTPUT
KEYBOARDING focuses on INPUT