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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. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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      Which must have been in reaction to a US attempt to define it as an opening quotation mark, but as far as I can tell that wordsmithing does not actually appear in the US draft until September, 1964 https://archive.org/details/enf-ascii-1964/page/n50 …pic.twitter.com/7VZurUbWeW

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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      So it’s sort of like underscore? Starting as a dead/additive key (physically or conceptually) and then becoming its own independent thing?

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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      It seems like some decisions made more sense when computers came with printers, not displays? But we inherited them.

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    4. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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      Yes the entire model of using backspace for composition was tied to printing terminals, but some parts of it lived on longer because programs like less(1) go out of their way to transform backspaced underlining and bold into escape sequences

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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      I love this so much.

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    6. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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      Did you see this thread by the way? https://twitter.com/enf/status/1037138699106959360 … C's predecessor B allowed backspace in identifiers

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      Eric Fischer @enf
      Another underexamined aspect of programming language history: When did the underscore become a "letter" that could be used in identifiers? C's predecessor B allowed both underscore and backspace(!) so it was probably originally there for actual underlining https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/kbman.pdf … pic.twitter.com/qP2xPva42k
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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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      Yep! That’s what got me thinking.

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    8. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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      Oh good! And Multics really embraced overstriking, with a whole input canonicalization layer to make sure programs saw the same bytes no matter what order you composed the characters in, and whether you did it with BS or CR

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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      Did you hear about the IBM 1620jr project at the CHM?

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    10. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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      Was that the front panel on display at VCF West?

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      Yeah, but they’re using the Wheelwriter as I/O and they’re heavily using overprinting to create the facsimiles of 1620-specific glyphs not present on Wheelwriter’s wheels.

      7:15 PM - 24 Oct 2018
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        2. Eric Fischer‏ @enf 24 Oct 2018
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          Oh yes, I saw the demo of that! Kind of a shame it's easier to do that than to get new daisy wheels made now though!

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 24 Oct 2018
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          Yep! We talked about it briefly. I also sent them pointers to Unicomp and they ordered new project-specific key caps. :·D

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