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Sculpture Made Out Of Typewriter Parts
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Many non-Latin alphabets have keyboard layouts that have nothing to do with QWERTY. The Russian layout, for instance, puts the common trigrams ыва, про, and ить on adjacent keys so that they can be typed by rolling the fingers. The Greek layout, on the other hand, is a variant QWERTY.
Typewriters were also made for East Asian languages with thousands characters, such as Chinese or Japanese. They were not easy to operate, but pressional typists used them for a long time until the development electronic word processors in the 1980s.
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