Check out this calculator’s worn out, malformed old-style full keyboard.pic.twitter.com/YNeTvG3Eqs
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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Check out this calculator’s worn out, malformed old-style full keyboard.pic.twitter.com/YNeTvG3Eqs
Eventually, we moved on to ten-key calculator keypads (which were faster to touch-type on), but they kept evolving, too.pic.twitter.com/OnID1Sdk1M
Practicing on real machines was expensive, so there were practice “dummy” calculators for you to master keyboarding!pic.twitter.com/uGqqykx7aa
I love that this mock-up calculator for teaching is called… Add-A-Skill. (In my best Robert Redford’s Sneakers impression: “Cute.”)pic.twitter.com/zaChekX8S8
One way of teaching how to touch type properly involved rings you’d wear with colour-coded animals on them… and a corresponding typewriter.pic.twitter.com/wTv0Oj0xZ7
And DAMN STRAIGHT this leads us to typewriters! This museum has purportedly the entire Remington collection (its owner used to work there).pic.twitter.com/bFLPxyDfg0
It starts with a beautifully restored Sholes and Glidden, or the first QWERTY keyboard. A few differences in layout from modern keyboards!pic.twitter.com/5G9jZDcVx2
(Some earlier typewriters looked much more like… pianos.)pic.twitter.com/1N3lOqfrMa
This is a reminder that Shift had to be invented also – and, once invented, not everybody jumped on board quickly.pic.twitter.com/RiMo2bmg57
Here, Smith Premier doesn’t quite know what to do with the space bar (compare two subsequent models).pic.twitter.com/VO0YxPMLwK
On this typewriter, you were supposed to type one letter with left hand, and another with right, AT THE SAME TIME. http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/duplex.html …pic.twitter.com/7ByZNl1oAG
Compare these two to see we haven’t always had Enter/Return, either! It only appeared when typewriters went electric.pic.twitter.com/QANj2dFcA2
Here’s The Empire from 1892, giving Jony Ive some ideas.pic.twitter.com/43JDAQI89O
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