As Animats mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455514, Doug's team didn't invent chorded keyboards

As Animats mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455514, Doug's team didn't invent chorded keyboards; Émile Baudot did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Clavier_Baudot.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Clavie... You can see that he designed his character code, like Morse, to make the most common letters easier to send: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Baudot_Code_-_from_1888_patent.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Baudot...