A keyboard with the characters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y on top row of alpha keys.
This is the full keyboard of 26 letters, plus symbols, rather than the 12-button pad found on push-button mobile phones. A QWERTY keyboard (named for the keyboard's first six letters) makes entering messages quicker and more convenient. .RBox { DISPLAY: none } Radiation Radio Frequency (RF) Random Access Memory (RAM) Resolution Ring Tone Roaming Rollover Minutes RS-MMC Card
The most common key layout for standard keyboards. Look at the top row of letter keys on your keyboard, the first six spell out QWERTY.
Common English-language keyboard, with letters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y comprising the upper left row of the letter pad
the standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys
Traditional layout of a keyboard, where the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y appear in one of the rows in this order.
This is pronounced kwer-tee and is the name given to a standard English keyboard. The name simply comes from the first six letters on a keyboard.
The standard keyboard layout used on current computer systems is the QWERTY layout, named after the first six letters from the left-hand side of the top row of letter keys. The QWERTY layout, which was fixed in the 1870s, is based on criteria that were originally intended to prevent the type bars of early mechanical typewriters from colliding. As a result, it is difficult to learn, tiring to use, and has many awkward sequences that lead to typing errors. In spite of the existence of a more scientific layout, the archaic QWERTY layout survives due to the inertia of typing habits. See Dvorak keyboard.
A term which seems to confuse a lot of people, it simply refers to a typewriter style keyboard (as used in expanded form on virtually all computers). 'Qwerty' is the first six letters on the top row of letters keys.
standard computer keyboard with keys laid out in the same order as a traditional typewriter. The first six keys in the top left-hand corner spell QWERTY. The keyboard was so arranged to slow typing down because keys on a typewriter would jam if hit in quick succession.
Description of a traditional PC keyboard. QWERTY being the first 6 letters along the top line of keys. As opposed to a number pad keyboard.
