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Atypical QWERTY?
Saw this Splendid 66 pop up today: (2) Olympia Splendid 66 Typewriter Auction (liveauctioneers.com).
It has a QWERTY keyboard with Ä, Ö, Ü, ß, and a `/´ dead key.
Is this a German QWERTZ that someone swapped the Z and Y, or some other keyboard layout? (I don't see it in the NOMDA book on the TWDB).
- M. Höhne
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Re: Atypical QWERTY?
robmck wrote:
.... snip .... It has a QWERTY keyboard with Ä, Ö, Ü, ß, and a `/´ dead key. .... snip ....
Hmmmm, slightly interesting. What would be the point of a dead "/" key? And what is the other character on it?
- robmck
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Re: Atypical QWERTY?
Sorry. It's not a / dead key but a dead key with ` and ´ on it. I assume it's for diacritics for other letters like é and è. I used the / just to differentiate the two diacritics, but that was a poor choice.
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Thread Starter- M. Höhne
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Re: Atypical QWERTY?
O boy, did I misread that! Sure they're accents grave and acute. I took them for single quotes and I should have been tipped off by the fact that they're opening and closing, very unlikely on a typewriter, though in my defense I'm looking at a computer font here. Modern life is so complicated.
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Re: Atypical QWERTY?
Is this a German QWERTZ that someone swapped the Z and Y, or some other keyboard layout? (I don't see it in the NOMDA book on the TWDB).
The keyboard looks like a standard Olympia German keyboard to me, except or the swapped Z and Y. I base my answer on SF's currently listed on the German eBay site:
