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1868 – Beginnings of QWERTY
Christopher Sholes is issued a patent for a typewriter utilizing the QWERTY layout keyboard that is still used today. His first patent was actually for a machine that had two rows. The three row keyboard that is in everyday use today was patented in 1873. The reason for the keyboard layout was the slow method of the typewriter recovering from a keystroke. To avoid the keys jamming, common letters were placed away from each other.
2008 – Purchasable 1TB of data
The industry’s first one terabyte storage drive is released. Sun Microsystems announces that the Sun StorageTek T10000B will go on sale for the competitive price of US$37,000.
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