Back in the days of Teletypes®, that was the quick way of verifying how well the machine was working. Sometimes the alignment wasn’t exactly right and a letter or two would be missing. You didn’t want that to happen during actual message traffic so sending “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs back 123456789 times” was an operational check. No punctuation though some stations would send all the punctuation on the keyboard. The phrase could be punched onto a paper tape and the paper tape tied together to make an endless loop to help in adjusting the machines.
ellisaana Premium Member almost 9 years ago
He is just the type to notice that.
Plods with ...™ almost 9 years ago
Typing test?
johovey almost 9 years ago
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
pschearer Premium Member almost 9 years ago
What’s so hard about using every letter of the alphabet? It’s easy. Watch:qwertyuiop asdfghjkl zxcvbnm.
Julius Marold Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Back in the days of Teletypes®, that was the quick way of verifying how well the machine was working. Sometimes the alignment wasn’t exactly right and a letter or two would be missing. You didn’t want that to happen during actual message traffic so sending “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs back 123456789 times” was an operational check. No punctuation though some stations would send all the punctuation on the keyboard. The phrase could be punched onto a paper tape and the paper tape tied together to make an endless loop to help in adjusting the machines.