@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent i voted "one" but then i remembered i noped out of it at the twenty minute mark. i test high for accomodation of "plot makes no sense", but, dear gods…

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Br3nda this country really needs a Shinkansen equivalent.

[milgrim@mas.to]

@Edent congratulations on year 1! I retired early back in March and have been enjoying every minute of it.

[br3nda@cloudisland.nz]

@Edent
It was built by confiscating land from Māori... For an important national resource
But now the trucking and road lobby has killed off railway and left it as a tourist attraction on stolen land.

[kbob@chaos.social]

@Edent I voted zero, but I've actually seen half of the first one.

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@Edent being a keyboard and typewriter lover, I'm amazed that I've never seen anything like this before.

This conjures all sorts of questions! When was the first shift key added to allow for variable casing? Where does a model like this fall in the timeline of typewriter design? Was it just an oddball design or was it in competition with the more conventional designs that survived?

Does that museum answer any of these questions?

[ianrogers@mstdn.social]

@Edent What a gorgeous beast

[edent@mastodon.social]

@sysop408 yup, it is fascinating 😄
There was, sadly, no other information. You can contact them at http://kaurimuseum.com/

[electropict@mastodon.scot]

@sysop408 @Edent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Shift_key

See more of these at Typewriter Database:

https://typewriterdatabase.com/Caligraph.New+Century+No+5.47.bmys

[electropict@mastodon.scot]

@sysop408 @Edent

A Master Printer friend of mine who I worked with, after going out of business in about 2003, decided to learn computers, having trained on Linotype but never touched a typewriter. He was amazed by the shift key on a Mac keyboard. Also by the delete/backspace key. They are indeed luxuries. And all luxuries are perilous.

[ketumbra@infosec.exchange]

@Edent but no 0...Apparently having a 5/8 key was more useful? I guess this was related to use of shillings and whatnot rather than expressing prices in decimal.
Or Maybe they reused the O (or the o) 🤷🏼‍♂️

[phl@mastodon.social]

@ketumbra @Edent Note also the lack of 1 key

They were missing on most typewriters (even the more familiar shifted ones), and you'd type a small L (or if you're a bad person, a capital i), and a big o for the one and zero. In Courier they look kinda the same.

[floatingonion@cyberplace.social]

@Edent Neat shot. All the fraction keys!

Wonder why the lower case e-r-t are so worn compared to the rest?

[edent@mastodon.social]

@petebrown cheaper than new RAM for your laptop 😄

[theidofalan@hachyderm.io]

@Edent dedicated `@` for quick and easy email addresses

[natalyad@disabled.social]

@Edent I'm not even a typewriter nerd but I WANT one!

Also reminds me of how we'd do sign language fingerspelling to indicate case of the letters, we would sign upper-case higher-in-the-air so they were distinct. Especially useful when working in a case sensitive way. (That or just plug 2 keyboards in!)

[artbysarahsammis@socialbc.ca]

@Edent In the mid 1980s (85-86, thereabouts) there was a whole ad campaign featuring models / actresses working while wearing the new "shear" band-aid. I haven't been able to find a print version but there is a TV ad that's on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2Iww0WaRQ

[xsk8rat@mastodon.world]

@Edent
They rolls their eyes when i try to discuss GW and his mystery solving turtle "Speedy".

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@Edent “it works in my machine” is why we have docker in production.

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent "using 'it works on my machine' as an excuse" was literally one of the reasons you could be shot with a nerf gun at my old job.

https://github.com/makosteel/devrules