Adding machines established their keyboards before the phone. yes.
In fact, if memory serves, the phone company deliberately changed the
phone keypad layout because the original touchtone hardware couldn't
respond as fast as experienced adding machine operators could punch
keys.
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com
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