There could be a really cool article tying this thread with the “computer keyboards come from terminals” (Ctrl on the left) vs. “computer keyboards come from typewriters” (Caps Lock on the left) layout tensions.
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Replying to @mwichary @arawilson
With also a "Computer keyboards don't come from keypunches. Why don't they?" angle
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Replying to @mwichary
At least some of the angles: "EBCDIC lost," "Keypunches had already abandoned bit-pairing http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-era-ibm-keypunch.html …," "Computer industry people didn't anticipate interactive computing"
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Replying to @enf
Ah, got it. I was thinking on a higher level. (BTW aren’t laptop numeric-keypad-on-alpha section inspired by key punches?) I have that article queued up, but haven’t read it yet!
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Replying to @mwichary
I think more likely independent reinvention, if only because the keypunch ones put 123 on the top instead of 789?
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Maybe there is a higher level story but so much of it seems to be small independent decisions that added up
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Replying to @enf
I just sort of think the likelihood of nobody remembering the key punch orientation when designing the new iteration is close to zero?
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But who knows.
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Maybe I was primed to think that by just reading https://twitter.com/robey/status/952264987690479616 … about how short people's memories are in the computer industry
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Yeah. I worry about that a lot vis-à-vis HCI/UX history, too. My first thought, though: iPhone autocorrect. ;·)
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