Keyboard letter 'N' question

[pflaming]

On my i-pad, the letter 'N' shows wear, other keys no not. Interesting that that letter is apparently used so much more than the others. Any ideas or theories on why? Inquiring mind wants to know.

[Don Coatney]

Now aNd theN  I thiNk about it but I kNow No reasoN aNd I am Not Nor have Never beeN sure of a reasoN. CertiNally someoNe must kNow.

[Plymouthy Adams]

look closer to your   E R T U O A D L  keys  ( unjumbled...TRUE LOAD)

Edited February 3, 2015 by Plymouthy Adams

[P15-D24]

On my i-pad, the letter 'N' shows wear, other keys no not. Interesting that that letter is apparently used so much more than the others. Any ideas or theories on why? Inquiring mind wants to know.

iPads don't have keyboards.  The one that displays on the screen has a worn N key? I gotta see this!

[Plymouthy Adams]

P15-D24, on 03 Feb 2015 - 10:31 AM, said:

iPads don't have keyboards.  The one that displays on the screen has a worn N key? I gotta see this!

could be the screen just needs cleaning...you were not using white out on there were you PP?

[pflaming]

I guess I should have been more precise. I have an I-Pad - tablet - ??? which has can has both the screen 'key board" and a keyboard. So dont be so picky, I like Don's answer. There must be a reason the letter N is in the location on the keyboard. Just interesting.

[Don Coatney]

pflaming, on 03 Feb 2015 - 11:02 AM, said:

I guess I should have been more precise. I have an I-Pad - tablet - ??? which has can has both the screen 'key board" and a keyboard. So dont be so picky, I like Don's answer. There must be a reason the letter N is in the location on the keyboard. Just interesting.

Ask Young Ed. He is the in house qwerty answer man

[RobertKB]

E is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet so it is the one that should be showing the most wear. Eleven E's in that first sentence and only four N's.

[Plymouthy Adams]

pflaming, on 03 Feb 2015 - 11:02 AM, said:

I guess I should have been more precise. I have an I-Pad - tablet - ??? which has can has both the screen 'key board" and a keyboard. So dont be so picky, I like Don's answer. There must be a reason the letter N is in the location on the keyboard. Just interesting.

 

odds are you have a notebook and not a tablet...difference in features..

[wayfarer]

...interesting...on my key board the 'a' and 's' show the most wear...

[_shel_ny]

Not sure if this applies to non-qwerty uses or not.

[Don Coatney]

The N is positioned as such that it gets rubbed when the space bar is used.

 

 

On my keyboard use of all keys is about equal. 

 

[Ulu]

I use a Logitech G11 at work. I've used it for over 5 years now & it shows no signs of wear on the keys.

 

None at all, because unlike some keyboards the letters go all the way through. They're not just painted on.

[Frank Elder]

PatiNa....phoeNix......Nebraska.....MaiNe...iNsurance....juNkyards........wiriNg.....paiNt...some of your favorite subjects.

edit  Forgot DoN....

Edited February 5, 2015 by Frank Elder

[pflaming]

I was in the shop of a red neck friend who was showing me something on his computer. The letter "F" was the most worn!  Maybe he's a Ford Fan. LOL

[Uncle-Pekka]

I was in the shop of a red neck friend who was showing me something on his computer. The letter "F" was the most worn!  Maybe he's a Ford Fan. LOL

 

May-be... Or maybe he does use the f-word in exess...

[Plymouthy Adams]

friend, family, forgiveness, fuel, fortunate, four door, flathead, flood (as in carb) fill-up, frankfurter, etc etc..

[Niel Hoback]

Maybe his computer is effed up>

[DJ194950]

Never know the condition or past usage when you by computers at garage sales!

[Ulu]

Never know the condition or past usage when you by computers at garage sales!

 

You're not gonna believe this, but I just fired up my Dad's old PC the other night. I haven't booted it since he died in 2002, and it's been sitting in my garage. Actually, it's so obsolete (a Tyan Trinity 100 based machine) I finally decided to just junk it, and for 6 months it's been sitting outside in the weather on my porch. I blew it all out with the air hose and plugged it all in.

 

After 12 years it booted the first time, and the clock battery was still working. It still had the correct date, and the time had actually gained about 43 minutes!

 

The battery is a 3v lithium-ion button cell, so I guess those things are really durable.

 

Anyhow, browsing Dad's old PC I found some old photos of our family that I never had seen before, & from the dates Dad had evidently scanned them into the PC just a month before he died in 2002.  One is sorta interesting & I'll post it up later 2nite.

 

Anyhow, I'm sure glad I decided to run that machine again. Those photos would have been lost forever.

Edited February 7, 2015 by Ulu

[Young Ed]

Tyan now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. I had a couple Tyan motherboard based PCs. One had dual PII or PIIIs. The huge card based processors.

[Ulu]

I think this one runs an AMD K62-500, which is just a regular chip style CPU.

[Niel Hoback]

Yeah, but what kind of shape is the "N" in?

[Dave72dt]

I find quite a few letters on my keypad show signs of wear. Tilting it a little so I can get reflections on it will show the most commonly used keys being a bit shinier as well as usage on the space bar, the dominant shift key and on the mouse touch pad where one finger is used to scroll, another to navigate the mouse and a third to hit the enter button.

[Ulu]

Yeah, but what kind of shape is the "N" in?

 

I'll have to post a pic of the keyboard. It's not a Qwerty.

Nor a Dvorak either.

 

 

 

<EDIT>   Hmmm...it's put up somewhere so I'll have to find it.

 

Anyhow it looks like a typical old IBM mech switch keyboard except the keys are in alphabetical order.

Edited February 7, 2015 by Ulu