This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
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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
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@ireneista I was guessing “blind” something.
@mwichary oh, possible
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@mwichary oh, possible
@mwichary hmmm bitsavers pretty much just has the brochure. archive.org has some manuals but they're for older, electromechanical devices.
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This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)
1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.
@mwichary @SecularJeffrey
Fantastic thread. The design ethic of the era...
I had a job in the 80s working on a paper terminal:
https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth/111637244795576559
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