@mwichary Have you seen the dual-tiered keyboard on the UCSB Culler-Fried On-Line System? It's kind of a Mathematica from the late 1960s, I wrote about their troubles converting to standard 7-bit ASCII for ARPANET usage here https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-216 …
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Thanks! I have a few photos, but don’t know much about it.pic.twitter.com/ngcygjq90I
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I know there have been a few similar keyboards around! GAMMA and AMTRAN. They remain pretty mysterious.pic.twitter.com/luKYI1ADYF
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Appreciate you writing and sending this!!!
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You inspired me to finally do this:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1173829224026628101 …
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Marcin Wichary @mwichary
Hello, stranger.
I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens.
Shall we…?
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