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
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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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
Physical calculators of yesteryear. (A.k.a. Where should we put the zero!?)pic.twitter.com/ZI717JxYWg
BTW This is the proper “touch typing” technique for one of them. I’ll let you figure out which one. ^_^pic.twitter.com/Y2KCaRog8q
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
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
If you inspect the carbon ribbon and the lift-off ribbon, you can see exactly what you typed/erased. Sometimes that was a security problem.pic.twitter.com/dH71yJaWbZ
Here is a better view of the dual-ribbon setup and the magical (interchangeable) font ball.pic.twitter.com/fhLvSnzS3F
Here is this machine without its cover and from the bottom. It’s a marvel of engineering. (Also note type balls on the side.)pic.twitter.com/r02qFaeFKY
It was this typewriter that Soviets made a… keylogger for to spy on the US, in one of my favourite Cold War stories: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/ …
And here is a great video explaining how the Selectric font ball works. It’s a miracle: https://youtu.be/bRCNenhcvpw
And on that note, I am out of here. Have a great weekend. I will leave you with this here most meta key label ever.pic.twitter.com/g60vdK273j
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