@xah_lee For your collection, part 1: Xerox 1109 LISP keyboard.pic.twitter.com/OoBsqEzkpZ
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I believe they all could put zero in front because they didn’t have to worry about bit-pairing?
(Except I don’t know much about the Hungarian one.)
/cc @enf
I don't think bit-pairing matters to where on the keyboard the key is physically located. 0 is paired with space, so shift-0 is never useful, but that doesn't change whether you put it on the left or the right
I seem to recall at least one home computer with a bit-paired keyboard where Shift+0 would actually type a space. Don't remember what it was, though. TRS-80 perhaps?
Or it was programmer-centric where 0 comes before 1. Early typewriters used an O for a zero (my Dad had one); later ones put the 0 after the 9.
My theory is that we ended up with 0 on the right because typewriters got 0 decades before they got 1. And putting 0 on the left without 1 seems… weird?pic.twitter.com/qwjvp4kd7O
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