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Computer Keyboard History
The typewriter was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, but it was the Remington Company that started selling them in mass quantities 11 years lates. The typewriter went through several innovative phases before the invention of computer keyboards. These innovations included a teletype machice and punchcard systems. The punchcards were used as the basis for early IBM adding machines. These innovations were also used with the earliest computer keyboards. Eniac computer in 1948 used a punched card reader as the input device. In 1949, the Binac computer used a typewriter to input data. Computer Keyboard History - Modern Keyboards The roots of the user interface that we know today for keyboard input can be traced back to 1964, when MIT, Bell Laboratories and General Electric created Multics. This system resulted in the video display terminal, which combined the technologies of television and electric typewriters. For the first time, computer users could see what text they were typing on a television screen. The modern keyboards are evolutions from this first step to combine the typewriter and a television screen. As for the layout of the modern keyboard (QWERTY), it was also invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the first typewriter. To see how the computer industry has developed in general, visit Old-Computers.com, an online museum for computers.
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