At first I thought there was nothing interactive about the next section on chips… not counting the weird little “port” you can just take out. Wait, is that supposed to be a cartridge?pic.twitter.com/VPQZG7Sh4h
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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At first I thought there was nothing interactive about the next section on chips… not counting the weird little “port” you can just take out. Wait, is that supposed to be a cartridge?pic.twitter.com/VPQZG7Sh4h
But then I discovered a flap you can raise, although it’s still not that interesting. Instead of showing you top of the chip and letting you peer inside, this shows you inside the chip and gives you… more text. Zzzzzzpic.twitter.com/7hFyei7YGW
The next page is more like it! You can peer inside the floppy drive…pic.twitter.com/n68hqS17n3
…or slide the head to reveal the magnetic medium, or even flip open a whole disk to see its structure. This is interesting in that it really is just a floppy disk enclosure, at seemingly 1:1 scale, just made out of cardboard.pic.twitter.com/XhVBG0k8eg
The next spread has the most interesting visual… a piece of string you can drag to simulate the electron beam inside a CRT forming pixels as it travels to the right.pic.twitter.com/dfrgYaAqU5
And there’s also a little rotator that tells you about the exciting world of software.pic.twitter.com/HXMjGzofKd
(It sort of feels like an odd, physical manifestation of Spaces in Mac OS.)
The last spread, with the dot-matrix printer is pretty cute, although the message feels a bit creepy? You can drag it over for a bit of closure. GOODBYE, HUMAN. YOU WILL LEARN TO HATE ME AS WE GROW OLDER TOGETHER_pic.twitter.com/sWhjSUYCbn
That’s it! I’m oddly fascinated by it. Today, it feels like one clumsy artifact talking about another clumsy artifact. But how did it feel in 1984? The home computers were pretty high tech then, of course, but I imagine this book must have been awkward from day one?pic.twitter.com/53aTaAnoE4
I dunno. If I was given a pop-up book as an adult training for a new job, I might have been skeptical, but only because it seems like a toy. As a how-it-works book for kids & teens, though? So awesome. Pop-up books were always cool, & prompted deeper examination than others.
Thanks! (I never had one growing up.)
See, this is why the communists lost. I don't think I ever had one this complex, but did have some fun pop-up books as a kid. Last year, I found a few old ones & gifted them to my nephew. …and then had to read them for bedtime stories every day for the rest of my visit!
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