In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical Type-Writer so that commonly paired letters sat far apart, ensuring the metal typebars would swing from different directions and not jam mid-word Saving Tips July 23, 2026 In a Milwaukee workshop in 1868, a former newspaper editor named Christopher Latham Sholes filed a patent for a machine…
Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs wanted users to reach for the mouse first. Then Apple quietly sold the missing keys as an accessory. Saving Tips June 8, 2026 The original Macintosh keyboard was not missing arrow keys by accident. When Apple put the Macintosh on sale on January…
