How Tandy fixed IBM's keyboard layout

The Tandy 2000 was not a successful computer, but its keyboard corrected the mistakes of the IBM PC's keyboard, and helped influence the design of the industry-standard keyboard layout that nearly all desktop PC and Mac users type on today.

Time flow: 0:00 Introduction 1:40 The shift stretch and return reach 4:39 What the F-keys? 5:38 Under lock and arrow keys 7:44 Other keys 8:55 IBM finally got it right 11:29 Influential flops

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