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@shadychars Did you know this? The pointed forefinger bit?pic.twitter.com/POKaN9o1Rv
This is from Annals of the History of Computing Vol. 2, No. 3, 1980, “History of mechanical computing machinery.”
(Writing about numeric keypads and so on now. :·) )
Excellent! Be sure to check out Bell Labs' experiments with the telephone keypad. (Although I'm sure I don't have to tell you that :)
Yep! That was pretty cool. I particularly enjoyed their disappointment when they reached out to calculator companies…
…to see what their ergonomic findings were with the reversed keypad, and they were all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
My favourite Bell Labs keypad is the pushbutton version of the standard rotary dial - they were quite literally phoning it in with that one.
Hahaha! I might be stealing this. :·P I like the Parmelee calculator from 1850 because it’s essentially a rotary dial without rotation.pic.twitter.com/yZeU2cvlIb
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