Here’s a little slow motion video of 9:59 becoming 10:00.pic.twitter.com/Rj5670AQwn
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The amazing tidbit: the flaps absolutely did not have to be symmetrical. In real life they move too fast to notice. And yet, someone cared.
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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
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Here’s a Facit calculator with Nixie tube digits.pic.twitter.com/aSoKbYTEQN
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I tried to make it say “idiot” in Polish (upside down), to… somewhat limited success.pic.twitter.com/lHzxVC9vyf
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(Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia has an extensive/hilarious/sad entry on calculator spelling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_spelling …)
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Take me down to the arrow key city where the grass is green and directions super precisepic.twitter.com/aC9q7nTj6C
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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
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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
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Physical calculators of yesteryear. (A.k.a. Where should we put the zero!?)pic.twitter.com/ZI717JxYWg
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BTW This is the proper “touch typing” technique for one of them. I’ll let you figure out which one. ^_^pic.twitter.com/Y2KCaRog8q
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But this was my favourite today: IBM Correcting Selectric II from 1973. It has a Backspace in a physical world! Here’s a semi slo-mo video:pic.twitter.com/i9DahJSUvU
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You press the special bottom Backspace, and then type the letter again – but that one time a lift-off ribbon will be used to erase it.pic.twitter.com/4766cn6ImO
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