(Yes, it was a keyboard-themed party. Another friend wrote the beginning of a screenplay with a literal cliffhanger.)pic.twitter.com/OnP9B7G9C0
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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(Yes, it was a keyboard-themed party. Another friend wrote the beginning of a screenplay with a literal cliffhanger.)pic.twitter.com/OnP9B7G9C0
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
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
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
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
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
what do you need from the DIN people? I may know some answers or people. I was around in the 70s
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.
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?
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This might be a nice overview: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0003687084900607 … DIN 66234 has been superseded by DIN EN ISO 9241 (a European Norm, thus "EN").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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