During my research I’ve found many keyboards that felt awful, looked bad, or were conceptually bankrupt. But it was only yesterday that I found the vilest of keyboards, an idea so cursed that I almost don’t want to talk about it – as if even doing that would give it credibility.
Luckily, as far as I can tell, there was no Royal Digital II or Royal Digital I. It was only the less fortunate alternate universes that were graced with the calculators that I assume had two or even just ONE digit – and more “keys” you’d have to claw to move between.
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In our reality, to add insult to injury, this was all in the early 1970s, the decade that gave us beam springs and Selectric II – lauded as possibly the most pleasant keyboards ever made, and ones whose design decisions inform keyboards even today.pic.twitter.com/P1Kcg4UOnL
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And then, somewhere among them, there was this calamity. Yes, eventually a Royal Digital 5 was made, with a more proper keyboard.pic.twitter.com/TjQH90ypS1
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But we’ll have to live knowing that Royal Digital III and IV existed once, these wretched, grotesque contraptions that were as far away from touch typing as humanly – or at this point, inhumanly – possible. And we can do nothing about it.
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