Keyboards

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:28 am

Dear members of Balto Source.

I'm really confused now with the difference between a British Keyboard, and an American one. I know the British one is called a "QWERTY" keyboard, but what about American ones?

I mean, it's really confusing with one of the games because of Keyboard differences in the numbers and it's hash key value (i.e for 3 we have £ but different on an American Keyboard) Any help?

Rusty the Fox · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:26 pm

I'm not fully understanding what you're asking. But to my knowledge the difference is mainly key placement.

You might have already come across the British and American keyboards Wikipedia page, but that's the only place I found that explains the difference.

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:58 pm

Rusty the Fox wrote:

I'm not fully understanding what you're asking. But to my knowledge the difference is mainly key placement.

You might have already come across the British and American keyboards Wikipedia page, but that's the only place I found that explains the difference.

Thanks for that Rusty, that's what I was asking for, the difference between the two.

Pirate480 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:18 pm

We don't really call our keyboards anything in the U.S.Just"keyboards" or that's what I've come across

Conay · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:07 pm

Joker wrote:

We don't really call our keyboards anything in the U.S.Just"keyboards" or that's what I've come across

Well, there both QWERTY keyboards, the only difference is that there is "QWERT-UK" an "QWERTY-US"

Note: The first 6 letters of the keyboard are Q-W-E-R-T-Y?

starsky_Hiro wrote:

Joker wrote:

We don't really call our keyboards anything in the U.S.Just"keyboards" or that's what I've come across

QWERTY is the standard keyboard both in Europe and USA, the only differences are a few dots but they are still Qwerty keyboards.

This might clear it up a bit

Quote:

QWERTY (pronounced /?kw?ti/) is the most used modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six characters seen in the far left of the keyboard's top row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented [1] by Christopher Sholes in 1874[2] and sold to Remington in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters.

Nu! I was going to say thatteh!

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