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I've never heard of this. Was this just a quirk of the LGP-30?

• Anarch157a 4y ago
  Probably not. Look at your keyboard. Those are the keys on the right side of the home row. They probably used them because it was easier and quicker to type than 'abcdef'.
  • masklinn 4y ago
    > Those are the keys on the right side of the home row. Why would you want that alongside numbers which are either two rows up or to the side? Unless the keyboard was something like USPS’s which has numbers as an alternate mode on the home row, and thus made this layout sensible? But that would still make it a quirk of the system. Edit: yeah it was absolutely a quirk of the LPG-30, per a sibling comment: http://laboratorium.net/archive/2008/04/28/a_few_facts_about_the_lgp30 http://laboratorium.net/archive/2008/04/28/a_few_facts_about...
  • taneq 4y ago
    What keyboard layout do you use? Q and L sure aren't in the home row on a QWERTY keyboard unless you're one of those sales guys that only ever types TYPEWRITER. :P