This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
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15. This cool drawing of a keyboard for a manual, with a lot of corrections and whiteouts (if you look closely).
@mwichary illustrations like this (and, in particular, Transformers transformation instruction sheets) are what lead me to learn technical illustration so many decades ago. Love this, and the whiteout.
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18. This company is called G. O. GRAPHICS. Cute.
19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary real color, not white, grey or beige.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary Adding a bit of the complementary color green would have really helped here. Or, even just a bit of red-orange, for an analogous color palette.
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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
20. More cool keys from the Photon.
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16. Bad Boys (1995)
@mwichary My computer programmer dad had a work setup a lot like this. They hired me to run backups so I got to mess with it
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20. More cool keys from the Photon.
21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
@mwichary oh whoa. very interesting glyphs on some of those keys, we kinda want to dig up a manual and find out what they do
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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
22. Kinda looks like Ouija board.
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22. Kinda looks like Ouija board.
23. A single stroke of this key.
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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
@mwichary
...it deletes both the character before and the one after the cursor? -
@mwichary oh whoa. very interesting glyphs on some of those keys, we kinda want to dig up a manual and find out what they do
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23. A single stroke of this key.
@mwichary This needs to be my LinkedIn profile pic.
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23. A single stroke of this key.
@mwichary That’s reminiscent of CADAM, which called the command to move a group of artifacts by mouse DRAGON for “drag on.”
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23. A single stroke of this key.
24. This keyboard is yet another entry in the classic Return/Enter story!
The main paragraph break (Enter) is a ¶ pilcrow, which is amazing. Above it is QC (Quad Center, or Enter + Align Center) and QR (Enter + Align Right), and even QM (Quad Middle? Not sure what that means).
And you can see New Line, or today’s Return, in the vicinity.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary oh this so appealing
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@mwichary "preview", possibly?
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@mwichary "preview", possibly?
@ireneista I was guessing “blind” something.
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9. Charles Darwin would have approved of Linoterm.
I like where you choose to dig, @mwichary
Thanks for sharing all this
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