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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 3 Dec 2017
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      (Yes, it was a keyboard-themed party. Another friend wrote the beginning of a screenplay with a literal cliffhanger.)pic.twitter.com/OnP9B7G9C0

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 5 Dec 2017
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      The log of my friends trying all sorts of keyboards connected to my computer this weekend reads like someone rather quickly losing their mind.pic.twitter.com/MZZDc549Ed

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 6 Dec 2017
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      Just scanned three hundred pages of a doctoral thesis on the typewriter industry. My left arm hurts. Will upload to Internet Archive in a few days. (Huge thanks to the amazing Prelinger Library for allowing me to use their scanner!)pic.twitter.com/fiTrJUh6U1

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Dec 2017
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      After a careless introduction of a key puller at my party my precious writing keyboard looks like this now. The red key is not even the right profile and is sticking out… but I’m embracing this for the next chapter. We’ll see if it has much less of the letter “n” than others.pic.twitter.com/UneivR8SwH

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Dec 2017
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      Learning that how I feel *before* writing a chapter can be unrelated to how I feel *while* writing it. Struggled so much with coming up with structure for this one and dreaded it, and yet it is so much fun to write – plus, of course, I completely changed the structure already.pic.twitter.com/9YBC2y5gr4

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 7 Dec 2017
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      0_O (The perils of being a historian of a young industry. Asked a German institution about the DIN keyboard standards of the early 1980s.)pic.twitter.com/7VTK6I4gHe

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      Whom did You write to? Did they honestly imply that all people involved are „retired or dead“? A bit hard to believe, but might be - still, it shouldn’t be a reason for discouragement. I‘m sure there are people of DIN who might be interested - an if they are retired: even better!

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Dec 2017
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      Definitely agree!!!

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    9. bB‏ @bbccdde 9 Dec 2017
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      I can try to see next week if I can figure out anything relating to PR or something at DIN. Probably look at their web site , or call them. Or might be able to find somebody who knows someone working there - but it is a huge institution, not sure how far that might lead.

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 9 Dec 2017
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      Thanks so much for your help!!!

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      PS more context:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/939583054493884416 …

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      Thanks! I’m looking into better understanding of: 1) how 1980s DIN standards shaped the (beige) visual appearance of computers and keyboards, 2) why they succeeded where others failed (they even convinced IBM), and/or 3) which standards precisely were they.
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