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Big name in keyboards
Answer for the clue "Big name in keyboards ", 6 letters:
qwerty
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1929, from the first six keys on a standard typewriter keyboard, read as though text, from top left. Mechanical typewriter patented 1867; the QWERTY layout itself is said to date to 1887, dominant in U.S. from early 20c.; it is not meant to slow down typists, ...
Usage examples of qwerty.
The digital display came up with a small qwerty keypad, for him to punch in an enabling code.
Aside from the regular QWERTY keyboard, there were a dozen special-function keys labeled F1 through F12, and several others marked DIN, DON, and RES.
In the year 60,000, man had evolved to his environ: honeycombed by the billions, with each a cubicle-hole to call his own, ergonomically hunchbacked into cushioned chairs with drink-holders and power-steering for all, marsupial ass-pouch wallet-holders and eight-fingered nonprehensile hands fluttering over QWERTY pads while cranially inflated heads soaked up sensory input from nine different modalities with an optic-response curve flatlined across the RGB spectrum and refreshed at 60Hz, 16-bit audio, and a peak throughput of 45MBps (full JPEG, millisecond latencies) when all of a sudden, What do you know?