This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary What’s the black tape thing at bottom left of last photo? Did they use ticker tape for sneakernet transfer?

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary love me a good paste up job!

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary I bet they’re swiping right in that photo!

[accordionbruce@mastodon.social]

@mwichary
The section in your book on those gigantic text-compositing machines was really interesting

After the lead-spewing Lynotype behemoths and before the desktop publishing revolution

And how they just got thrown in dumpsters and lost to history ️

So they didn’t fill up the computer museums

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary Is FLUSH R and FLUSH LEFT for toilets in different hemispheres?

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary some special keys for @scream, and early emoji keys! ️

[glennf@zeppelin.flights]

@mwichary Devil in your ear, it's not too late

[scream@bots.robots.rodeo]

@europlus AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@jef @mwichary bravo!

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@mwichary What a great thread – thank you!

[amyworrall@mastodon.social]

@mwichary needs more Oops and Please

[wandrecanada@mastodon.social]

@mwichary Wow that's pretty awesome. It's what early word processors used as markup for carriage returns as well. I recall this specifically from Wordperfect 2.0.

Was this keyboard made specifically for a computer or was it an evolution of an existent electric typewriter keyboard I wonder?