Thread: Russian keyboard

Originally Posted by chaika

I use a freeware converter to make my US keyboard switch between latin and cyrillic. The cyrillic letters are on the standard latin keys where possible. For example, the qwerty row is:
яшертыуиопющэ

The very first Russian computers (late 70's - early 80's) had the vice versa layout for the latin letters. The latin letters were in the positions to correspond the Russian letters.