Beautiful reproduction by .@HermanMiller of the NLS workstation, at the 50th anniversary of the ‘Mother of All Demos’ .@ComputerHistorypic.twitter.com/19Rl65qKFL
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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Beautiful reproduction by .@HermanMiller of the NLS workstation, at the 50th anniversary of the ‘Mother of All Demos’ .@ComputerHistorypic.twitter.com/19Rl65qKFL
Engelbart’s keyset! http://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/273/309/ …
Wow! How cool is that. I guess the same sort of system formerly used by Court stenographers.
I actually know a bit about this. It’s only similar in very broad strokes (no pun intended). They are both chorded (more than one key at the time), but Engelbart’s was based on letters, and stenographers chord entire syllables at the same time.
Stenotypists also use both hands, and have more keys. In general, their system is much more advanced. Engelbart’s was almost primitive, using the unnatural ASCII encoding.
Where Engelbart’s keyset shines is as a complement to the pointing device, with both your hands leaving the keyboard. Many professional computer users use it the same way today, except with one hand on half the keyboard instead of the keyset!
(Also, to be fair, it couldn’t be as advanced as stenotyping as computing power just wasn’t there at the time. Stenotyping in 1960s was a two-step offline process. Only today stenotyping can be real-time, added by computers, software dictionaries, and so on.)
Well! I feel truly enlightened. Thanks!
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