PS in my latest newsletter, another amazing keyboard-related trip that I was lucky to have accidentally instigated:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/a-time-machine-behind-the-cypress-trees-133223 …
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(In the middle of reading a book about Japanese word processors and their keyboards, a Japanese word processor and its keyboard materialized themselves on my desk.)pic.twitter.com/XYS3AvwOby
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I suspect when you dig deep enough, you will always find something at even the most unusual intersection of a bunch of your interests. Here it is for me: a 1990 ad I just discovered that’s ⅓ keyboards, ⅓ typography, and ⅓ education.pic.twitter.com/NYpo9PgcPT
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This moment of research is always very fun.pic.twitter.com/IYhkhZcFzY
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1483.00 ELECTRONIC DESIGN V. 30, 1-12 Jan. 7-June 10, 1982 (May Career Extra, Index) Reel 1 of 3 University Microfilms International Duplicate Negativepic.twitter.com/rZHMSU4pp1
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(If you’re curious what I’m researching, it’s the early days of mechanical keyboards. If this looks interesting, DM me and I’ll send you ~200 of these.)pic.twitter.com/NYNKQG7xWf
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I learned today there’s a difference between microfiche and microfilm.pic.twitter.com/povzY0BUeE
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Took a 90-year-old thesis that spent last 60 years on a shelf somewhere in Cincinnati for a ferry ride in California – and it rewarded me with gorgeous vulgar fractions that used to be on every keyboard, but disappeared long ago.pic.twitter.com/RohTa4ZM2l
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I’ve never heard them referred to as “vulgar” fractions before. I’ve always known them as “stacked” or “nut” fractions. Gorgeous, regardless.
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I think technically maybe only the ones with solidus are vulgar? I am not sure.
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