If you have read this article at the moment, you might have used your keyboard a few minutes ago. Whether it's on your computer or your smartphone, this keyboard helps control a lot of our daily life. Imagine if you did not have this keyboard on a computer or a smartphone, how would you write the information you needed?
We use keyboards for various purposes including writing;
This keyboard is engraved with various works including writing. And the keyboard we are currently using is the QWERTY keyboard. Have you thought, these keyboard letters are such a random? Why are they not sorted alphabetically? Let's know today to answer these unknown questions.
How is the start
The computer keyboard is actually starting from the typing machine. The words of 1873 At that time Christopher Latham Sholes was trying to make the work of office writing easier. At the time, he was studying various types of machines and their characterization for writing. He invented the first effective typewriter machine.
Typewriter inventor Christopher Shoals;
Initially, the keys or buttons on the typing machine invented in Sholay's were alphabetically. The typing machine made by him became so popular that people gradually learned to type in this machine much faster. However, there is a problem arising between users. It is seen that, when typing too fast, the typewriter button or keys are stuck at times. As a result, it becomes a big problem for writing.
QWERTY keyboard
Sholles has run a series of research for a long time to solve this problem. He experimented with various types of letters. But in any way he could not solve this problem. Suddenly one day he got an idea on his head. He thinks, because the buttons are stuck for quick writing, then let's arrange to reduce the speed of the finger of the person who is typing. To do so, he invented new letters or layouts that were used most often by writing away from each other. And this is how the current most widely used QWERTY keyboards.
Shoals invented keyboard layout;
However, the use of this keyboard on the computer starts sometime. In 1960, a couple named Bob and Joan Crosier thought that computers could be used for various business writing purposes. If you can add a keyboard to the computer then those tasks are a lot easier. At present we understand the personal computer or PC that the computer was at that time but there was no such computer. At that time there was a large mainframe computer. The couple first started a new revolution by adding a keyboard to this computer.
Keyboard on computer
Computer keyboards were introduced in the early 1970s. At the time, however, keyboards for the large mainframe computers were initially made for special needs. At the same time, only one button would have been pressed on these keyboards. Buttons were welded with the board. There was no cover on the keyboard at the time.
Shoileys invented the typewriter of her daughter;
But after some time, the world's first small-scale personal computer came to the market. These computers, known as the S100, did not have any hard drives or floppy disk drives. As a result, no information could be stored in it. To run these types of computers, the programmers had to write the program directly through the keyboard attached to the front panel of the computer. As a result, users were faced with a lot of difficulty in running this computer.
Besides, the keyboard used to write a keyboard like a convenient keyboard was no longer connected to the computer. As a result, the user had to be connected to the computer by purchasing IBM's electric typewriters. Then, for the data entry, there was a separate data entry keyboard, and if we did not find it, we had to create ourselves. But by the end of the seventies, the first computer keyboard started to be available in the market. Companies such as Apple, Radio Sack and Commodore have made the main contribution behind this.
Modern era keyboard
In the year 1980, the modern era of computer keyboard history started. In the early 1980s, IBM released its first personal computer market. This computer was associated with their famous 'Model M' keyboard. This keyboard has gained huge popularity for the quality and convenience of the keyboard. But there was a problem on this keyboard too.
That is, the 'Enter' and 'Shift' buttons on this keyboard were both very small. As a result, users have some difficulty in writing. However, IBM finally eliminated the solution of this problem. They left the two cap differently for these two buttons, which would have solved the problem after putting the buttons on the previous keyboard.
IBM's first personal computer with keyboards;
At present, the colors of different colors can be seen in the market, but there was no color keyboard available. At that time the color of the keyboard was black or white in black. At the end of the eighties, the first black-colored keyboard came to the market. At that time, different molds were used to make each letter in the keyboard.