It feels… actually profound to realize that at this moment in time, I might be the best equipped person to untangle the mysteries of QWERTY and Dvorak. And I mean, really. Worldwide.
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I still have one of those that should really get a raspi and some 16850's stuffed inside :)
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I remember writing a mouse driver for that using the serial port. IIRC turned out to be quite useless as there was no way of getting input to apps. Interrupts also got trampled IIRC.
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One of my favourite moments in this process is when what seems like a forgettable artifact reveals its actual incredible meaning – but only once you look closer and put time in getting to know it.
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This is a 1928 thesis about typewriting errors, by Gertrude Ford. On the surface it looks pretty boring… but this is the actual research that inspired a certain August Dvorak to try to reinvent the keyboard. I just got a rare copy of it from the University of Washington!pic.twitter.com/UGJxHkfF43
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to go!!!
To celebrate writing about QWERTY/Dvorak, I apparently turned myself into a Dvorak typewriter robot. (Turns out, I have no idea how to take selfies.)
chapters to go!
Here’s me with the Cambridge Z88 (lent by