Typewriter input, and otherwise

Keyboard (computing)

 

thread on typewriters as printers
thread on the custom-crafted computer cases veers off into weird keyboards
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/photos/19bbbf19-648b-4159-ba47-612550e07264
“steampunk” typewriter-cum-keyboard - in Japananese
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/thread/382b6c1f-8469-4946-9c34-6ea8e98917f2
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/thread/66f6e013-1b2b-401f-9af2-b6da4a55828a
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/thread/7747ddab-6d7f-4edc-96eb-7e6921b906b3
http://stringcanphone.tribe.net/thread/8269f328-ed24-4d57-9c63-5c70870b4925

 

Wikipedia:Maltron_keyboard
Wikipedia:Chiclet_keyboard

 

lobster-looking kanji thing

 

This CodingHorror post on typing has a colorful keyboard, pic. Uncredited. must find.....

 

Stack Overflow: Keyboards for Programmers
Coding Horror: more on keyboards for Programmers, primarily pushing the Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 UPDATE: I bought one of these in Dec, 2009 — turns out my touch-typing has been “off” for years; I’m learning all over again... nice keyboard, though....

 

BoingBoing: horrible working conditions for some keyboard-factory employees

 

(source)

 

 

Wikipedia:APL_#Character_set (I need some contextual notes on this)

 

 

13 strange keyboards

 

 

for Space Cadets (aka the Symbolics keyboard)

the multi-bizarre-keyed MIT LISP machine keyboard, in all of its REPL glory:

 

Wikipedia:Space-cadet_keyboard
http://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/symbolics/photos/IO/index.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/symkey.html

 

photo: the LISP machine keyboard - (source)

 

Symbolics -> Ps2 adapter -> USB adapter. woohoo!
PIC-based symbolics keyboard adapter

 

Those look SO neat. AND useful....

 

some close-ups

 

braille

need to find out more
http://gabey8.blogspot.com/2007/12/heres-yet-another-example-of-thinking.html

 

 

Miscellaney

photo: escape at the end of the week

 

See Also

Typewriter
XO.KeyBinding

 

 

Tags

keyboards hardware input interface


 

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