@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG
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@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG
@enf @shadychars @widespacer
2) overtyping S and tricolon for a dollar sign!!! (Also, on another page with a different font, overtyping S and I for the same.)pic.twitter.com/y55HVXRcWA
3) this, which is where I think tricolon is supposed to stand for parentheses?pic.twitter.com/ZHxPzrREQe
Very curious of your thoughts on any of the above!
Interesting! I'd be inclined to think that all of these uses are secondary, to an extent - the typist could have used at least one or more other characters in each case. The “$” is clever, but perhaps a happy accident...?
Yeah, I wonder how much of this was planned for. Although here’s a new idea: what if there were no primary uses? What if this was just some sort of a universal weird unclaimed character you could mold to do your bidding?
(I don’t buy it myself, since every key was so expensive...)
But precisely because every key was expensive, doubling or triping up (or more) makes the most sense.
I think if I were going to waste a key on a weird character, I would have wanted it to represent capitalization
Sholes was (famously) anti-capitalization. Shift happened only after he left the business and Densmore/Remington people fully took over.
Is it canon that on the Remington No 4, underscore was replaced by $ and tricolon by ½, or is that only true for the particular specimen shown in http://www.antiquetypewriters.com/collection/enlarged.asp?img=pic-Perfected%204.jpg&typewritername=Remington%20Perfected%204#.XAbKanpKhPs … ?
Oh, interesting! I haven’t seen this one before.
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