And now, this gorgeous “key board.” Very pleasant to type on. (Except the SKIP key, I suppose.)pic.twitter.com/sYL2ECicpO
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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And now, this gorgeous “key board.” Very pleasant to type on. (Except the SKIP key, I suppose.)pic.twitter.com/sYL2ECicpO
Here’s a Facit calculator with Nixie tube digits.pic.twitter.com/aSoKbYTEQN
I tried to make it say “idiot” in Polish (upside down), to… somewhat limited success.pic.twitter.com/lHzxVC9vyf
(Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia has an extensive/hilarious/sad entry on calculator spelling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_spelling …)
Take me down to the arrow key city where the grass is green and directions super precisepic.twitter.com/aC9q7nTj6C
This is… eerie. But it’s (sometimes unfortunate) details like these that help put tech history in context. This machine is from 1981.pic.twitter.com/oEENZGPbtX
The manual with an awkward cover tells us the story of what I guess is the last key ever that’ll be named like this (at least for a while).pic.twitter.com/l0NXaxH7cK
That terminal was introduced in exactly the same year HIV/AIDS was clinically observed in the US (1981).
FIRST observed, I meant to say.
Yeah – that’s why I mentioned 1981 specifically, although maybe I should’ve clarified it.
(I rewrote that tweet in my head some 20 times to try not to make it funny or wrong by accident.)
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