Monday 17th April 2023
Difficulty: Very easy
Keyboards (Quiz #150)
An IBM Model M keyboard. Photo: Raymangold22 (Creative Commons)
You're using a keyboard of some sort now. But they're not all the same...
1. Where might you find a computer with a QWERTZ keyboard?
2. The IBM Model M keyboard (pictured above) is regarded as a modern classic. How does librarian Andrew Preater describe the Model M keyboard in his article "Care and feeding of the IBM Model M keyboard"?
3. Stenographers (e.g. court reporters, closed caption writers) use a specialised "stenotype" keyboard to type up to 300 words per minute. How many keys does a stenotype keyboard have?
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