@enf New to me layout from IBM 702/705/7080 from the 1950s. Second dedicated computer keyboard I know of after UNIVAC 1.pic.twitter.com/LIZgxAcWyY
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@enf New to me layout from IBM 702/705/7080 from the 1950s. Second dedicated computer keyboard I know of after UNIVAC 1.pic.twitter.com/LIZgxAcWyY
Wow, that is super strange and I have never seen it before. Clearly very closely related to the punch card code, and maybe that matters if you're entering binary data by hand?
There’s this whole amazing universe of early data entry devices related to punched cards or later magnetic media that I barely understand. Like the IBM 372 where you drag digits down like in some old mechanical calculators.pic.twitter.com/iC7Bv54QEZ
Like IBM 3742 which shared one CRT display among two people so it’s… cheaper, I guess?pic.twitter.com/dADc3LiPt5
Or IBM 5252 which seems like a version of the same idea.pic.twitter.com/5LASShmkBt
Or IBM System/3 Model 6 (aka IBM 5406) that has absolutely the biggest key I’ve ever seen (to the very right):pic.twitter.com/ibSOQHEyu8
It breaks my heart that many of those might be gone forever! Only some of the manuals remain.
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