This is my book, laid out for the first time, in forty-seven chapters/themes.pic.twitter.com/l3Z7IO5q8u
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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This is my book, laid out for the first time, in forty-seven chapters/themes.pic.twitter.com/l3Z7IO5q8u
This feels petrifying (I’m basically looking at 47 blank pages instead of the usual one), but also I’m incredibly excited about it.
I can see it all, now, for the first time ever. I see a chronological spine, interspersed with excursions in all sorts of fun directions.
Tell me you wouldn’t read a book with chapters named: “Mr. Kildall goes flying” “Sixty monkeys per second” “Accidental Vulcan nerve pinch”
Writing, writing, writing… It’s like the biggest puzzle I ever tried to solve. This is example metadata for a chapter I just finished.pic.twitter.com/onbkSoUpj2
The chapter about arrow keys has Moon landing in it. The one about keylogging will start with Sully landing the plane in the Hudson.
This has been of my favourite parts of writing so far – making the kinds of connections I suspect no one’s made before.
Just finished a chapter about IBM PC and IBM PCjr keyboards, and feeling so incredibly F ecstatic about it. (F as in Model F, of course.)pic.twitter.com/qh9N7dOeJe
I feel no one told it this way – from Gary Kildall hopping onto his plane, to a fateful conference where reporters mocked the mighty IBM.
Even IBM's own Larry Rojas only predicted sales of some 254,000 IBM PCs. Uh, he revised it upward later...
And then it went the other way with PCjr, when the sales were 60,000 or so, and they predicted 5 to 10 times more. :·)
Oh dear, yes, the poor PCjr. One disaster market segment: classrooms. The IR keyboards interfered with each other, an oversight.
and the hardwired PCjr keyboard wasn't anything like on the then-celebrated IBM Selectric typewriters.
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