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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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   @ian @lauren @raph I love this idea

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     Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:17 JST Ian McKellar

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     @lauren @raph
     The AI revolution isn't real until my manuscripts are being illuminated as I type.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:21 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     @raph @ian I have an image of a medieval scribe sitting in front of a fantastic ancient mechanical apparatus, banging away at keys as beautiful, colorful pages emerge from the output with all the flourishes of the Voynich Manuscript.

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     Raph Levien (raph@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:25 JST Raph Levien

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     @ian @lauren I love the font-weight idea! I'd especially love to see that with the variable version of Inconsolata, which has a wide range, and whose monospace design would evoke typewriters which *were* velocity sensitive in this way.

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     Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:26 JST Ian McKellar

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     @lauren
     That's definitely the primary use case, but then I started thinking about what I could do when it's being a HID keyboard. Like maybe adjust font weight (ie: boldness) based on velocity. Or ALL CAPS yell when I'm banging real hard.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:32 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     @ian Hmm. Why velocity sensitive, unless it's doubling as a MIDI keyboard!?

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     Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:33 JST Ian McKellar

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     @lauren
     Meanwhile in 2024, one of my side-projects is an n-key rollover velocity sensitive keyboard. The prototypes so far are... okay...

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 11:36:38 JST Lauren Weinstein

     In the early days of computer terminals, it was not uncommon to have keyboards that featured no more than "2-key rollover". That meant that if you hit more than 2 keys closely together -- common with touch typing -- the results would be, well, not what you wanted.

     This was, however, better than the situation with IBM keypunches, which had mechanical keyboards with 1-key rollover. That is, you could only type one character at a time, and all other keys were physically locked out until you released the first key.

     Fun, eh?