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A few weeks back I got a new esoteric ergonomic keyboard (a "glove80").

It reminded me that I learned to type on a mechanical typewriter from 1930, which I inherited from my grandmother.

I was inspired to write a post "My Life In Keyboards," running from 1930 to the glove80, describing all the memorable ones I've used, with photos.

ASR-33 Teletype, IBM 029 card punch, VT05, DECWriter, Knight Keyboard, Space Cadet, Symbolics, [and then decades of blah interchangeable IBM PC clone keyboards], Logitech split, Keyboardio, glove80.

This would be highly meaningful for me, but not for anyone else, so... won't do it.

Still, it's a reminder of how different and distant the world I grew up in was. Almost nothing was electronic; some things were electromechnical; almost everything was just mechanical.

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