Just like home computers in the 1980s found their second wave in East Europe, and third one in Africa (well into the 1990s), the Mignon was sold for many decades in countries where it was harder to afford a “real” typewriter.
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The funny thing? You probably used an index keyboard at some point. Maybe inputting a password on Apple TV (which alternated between linear and 2D indexing).pic.twitter.com/Qr0xqIUmHm
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Maybe entering a high score on an arcade game using a joystick.pic.twitter.com/lf1XbY9m3T
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Maybe labelling stuff in your workshop.pic.twitter.com/j2jH1NUBuZ
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Index keyboards are a great example of an alternative idea that’s easy to ridicule, but the moment you step outside the mainstream, its deficiencies can become its powers.
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Japanese and Chinese typewriters? Needing to access thousands of characters before software meant traditional keyboard was impossible… but an index typewriter could work.pic.twitter.com/kAMfApJpOq
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Stephen Hawking used a version of an index keyboard to talk. The very same simplicity and inefficiency that would bother many typists was actually a great benefit here, a cheek twitch being his sole input method.pic.twitter.com/oqrpheBlwq
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You might also remember a lo-tech version of this idea from Breaking Bad. (“A page a day” is better than nothing.)pic.twitter.com/hqqfkH52Dq
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Have a limited room on your 1980s wrist? Put a tiny index typewriter in your phone.pic.twitter.com/HyO8p6uOn9
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Need to communicate with ghosts? How about an Ouija index typewriter. Waitpic.twitter.com/hawROsvq4x
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Well, next time, be on the lookout for an index keyboard in your life! Maybe, if you’re lucky, it’ll even be as cute as this cutest ever package-labeling machine.pic.twitter.com/NDCgwXlxEb
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That’s it! I-click-space-H-click-O-click-P-click-E-click-space-T-click-H-click-I-click-S-click-space-H-click-E-click-L-click-O *fuck*
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