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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      Its creators had the audacity to call this grotesque invention “Magic,” showing a disconnect from reality that wouldn’t feel out of place in American politics of the last few years – since you’re basically scraping your way through basic math.pic.twitter.com/7J40sIhOcF

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      But it gets worse. There was also a Royal Digital III, budget-deprived even more – so much so it remains the sole calculator I know of that shows only FOUR DIGITS.pic.twitter.com/qTT6R26Bhw

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      Four digits is not enough, of course. And so, the poor, maligned keyboard had to help – a big plus “key” was cut in half, and another key was added. A scroll key, toggling between two halves of a number, was added.pic.twitter.com/GHnGkZOz1J

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      Imagine needing to drag your cheap, unpleasant plastic stylus, and scratch a rectangle of metal… just to SEE THE WHOLE RESULT. It’s beyond gruesome.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      As with every proper beast, this one had many names: Royal Litton IC-90, Feiler FC-100. They all aged just about as well as you can imagine.pic.twitter.com/9PV1U9kVCA

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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      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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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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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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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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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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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 14 Jul 2018
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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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    10. Benjohn Barnes‏ @benjohnbarnes 15 Jul 2018
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      Wow. Was there anything to help avoid the moving error of looking at the wrong half of the display?

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      I wonder. Maybe they made sure the decimal point was always there, even if at the very end?

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