In today’s book adventures: Renting a typewriter!pic.twitter.com/dfrF8r1iis
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I *think* we’re talking about DIN 66234 and DIN ZH1/618, but they’re expensive to buy blindly. Was ZH1/618 what “implemented” 66234? How did it work exactly? Where to find more info?
unfortunately, one has to buy DIN standards these days. But I can have a look to see if anybody has old print-outs. Probably the Technical Museum in Berlin.
search for “Keyboards” yields this: https://www.beuth.de/en/erweiterte-suche/86526!search?query=keyboards&dokNr=&ausgabeDatum=&facets%5B86486%5D=&facets%5B86480%5D=&hitsPerPage=10&searchSubmit=Search&alx.searchType=simple … You can look for discontinued standards but have to log in
Sort of, yes, ZH1s are the old name for security guidelines of professional associations that are based on norms and sometimes developed by DIN. Workspaces had to be designed following their guidelines for security, ergonomics etc. Do you have the text of old 618?
Alas, I don’t! It seems that the 618 and 66234 have been rather influential and perhaps even caused the “beige box” design trend in the 1980s and 1990s – and then it went away.
It’s concerning size and angle of keyboards but also the colour and surface (semi-matt to matt, between 15–75% reflectance, dark characters on light background)
Whoa, do you know this from memory?
Looks like You have the ideal contact there - I think that if anyone knows people involved in the norming process back then, Erik Spiekermann would be that. Quite probably, he himself was involved - for example through his work for Berthold in Berlin. Their instrument looks wild!
I also tried to see if I can download the standards, but couldn't yet find them. All DIN standards (and many international ones) are officially published by Beuth company ( http://www.beuth.de ) - which, unfortunately, is pricey. But they often have translations to English.
Searching for DIN 66234 yields it's an old standard family from early 80ies with many subparts defining different aspects of "screen workplaces". This might be a nice overview: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0003687084900607 … DIN 66234 has been superseded by DIN EN ISO 9241 (a European Norm, thus "EN").
Thanks, I read/have this article and it’s indeed been very useful.
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