Random Thought #103

I wonder why the keys on a computer keyboard are setup the way they are. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason for it. I mean why wouldn't you just set them up in order? I think I recall that the most common keys are placed so that your fingers had to do the least amount of reaching and it does seem that most of us have adapted to this model fairly well but it's interesting nonetheless. I wonder what a predecessor keyboard layout to the standard QWERTY looked like