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   Jesse Vincent (jesse@metasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:44 JST Jesse Vincent

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   • Marcin Wichary

   @mwichary I don’t think I knew about the command bar. It feels a lot like a Leap key.

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     Speaking of spacebar-adjacent gimmicks, I am mildly obsessed with how beautiful is this first NeXT keyboard from 1987, with a bunch of cool subtle things including a Command *bar* underneath the spacebar. As a matter of fact, I just finished writing an essay on it today!

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:46 JST Marcin Wichary

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     Once you’re done with your shift (no pun intended) at the hospital, how about some Pizza? This is i-Opener, one of the many shortlived internet appliances, this one with a gimmick that keeps on gimmicking.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:48 JST Marcin Wichary

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     This strange “medical” keyboard is more mechanical than you’d expect! I wrote more about it here: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/a-tale-of-three-skeuomorphs. Cleaning required when flashing!

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:49 JST Marcin Wichary

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     This is another Mac “alternate universe“ keyboard - an Adesso ergonomic keyboard that feels like “what if Apple Adjustable still existed when iMac came around”?

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:50 JST Marcin Wichary

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     I love these DataDesk Little Fingers keyboards with smaller keys because you can see exactly when iMac was introduced and how the company tried to “redesign” the keyboard to fit the new style.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:51 JST Marcin Wichary

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     The Comfort System keyboard is another “ergonomic“ device that is honestly pretty frightening to look at (explaining the challenge of making keyboards like these). You can reposition and reorient each of the three parts independently.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:52 JST Marcin Wichary

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     I have a SafeType, thanks to a friend who noticed one about to be thrown away. This is among the most notable and interesting “ergonomic” keyboards, complete with mirrors that help you orient yourself when you’re starting out.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:53 JST Marcin Wichary

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     This is technically a bit of a spoiler for the book, but a) a lot of them are not in the book, and b) the book comes out in half a year, and we’ll all forget by then!

     Let’s start!

     https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 04:42:54 JST Marcin Wichary

     To celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of really strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards that I gathered over the years. (It might be the world’s strangest keyboard collection!)