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Keyboards - Curiosities - a Travel story .

Cosimah2o

Cosimah2o

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Do you have any story about computer keyboards ? or Do you have a nightmare travel story or an amazing travel story you'd like to share ?

I remember one time during a journey to Palmyra Desert in 2004 or 2005 ( by the way, I had been visiting Petra for collecting rocks that in some places are allowed ) , I tried to send an email and it was like an Odyssey because the keyboard layout was in Arabic and only there was a card in Nabatean & Aramic script as reference ...
Although the local people of net service had changed configuration of computer , they put ASCII code, the computer keyboard was still in Arabic and I had to memorize each script for finding their analogous in Latin. It was like to rewrite the Rosseta Stone !

In that hamlet there was not AZERTY or QWERTY or QWERTZ or HCSAR !!

But the best of this adventure was that I met with, by chance, 2 BLUE BERETS in the same local and they use my code for writing .. It was so strange ! :eek:
And besides, I had not to pay anything and this fact was very very weird too !! :lol:
 
All I will say is that I loath the French keyboard with a loathing I never thought I could possess.
 
What really annoys me about German keyboards is the way they break up the sacred QWERTY. QWERTZ? Bwuh?
 
beer good said:
What really annoys me about German keyboards is the way they break up the sacred QWERTY. QWERTZ? Bwuh?
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It also happens with the Swiss and Belgian keyboards, above all, if people from there speaks the French Language ... Actually, here begins a new Universe :D ...
The French speaking part of Switzerland uses the Swiss QWERTZ keyboard. In Belgium AZERTY keyboards although most non-alphabetic symbols are positioned differently ...

But I have some questions , What's your opinion about the Dvorak keyboard ?
Dvorak is it really faster than QWERTY ?

 
I have no opinion of the Dvorak, but I'm sure to people who learned it before they learned QWERTY or who just type by hunt-and-pick anyway it might be faster. Personally I've learned the QWERTY layout by heart and any slight change to the keyboard layout messes me up completely.
 
Cosimah2o said:
I remember one time during a journey to Palmyra Desert in 2004 or 2005 ( by the way, I had been visiting Petra for collecting rocks that in some places are allowed ) ......
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I was looking for in my time capsule ( Boîte à Souvenirs ) the Petra's ticket ... Yes, I took the wrong years ... I was there on january 2003 then I was 22 ..
 
That's news to me. I've used computers and typewriters since the mid-80s and I can't remember ever once coming across a Swedish keyboard that's not QWERTY (with Å Ä Ö tagged on).
 
I'm incensed that "they" removed the cent sign and substituted a caret. I've NEVER had the need to type a caret! I often need the cent sign. It's just not the same saying 99 cents.

It wouldn't be bad if I could change the uppercase 6 back to the cent symbol, but I can't even do that! How do stupid changes like this happen?

Also, the uppercase period and comma should be the same. If the < and > are so important, give them their own key! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
 
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