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   Jorge Arango (jarango@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:09:52 JST Jorge Arango

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   @lukasfx @naught101 @stags @thomasfuchs yes, someone else just brought that device to my attention. It’s almost exactly what I had in mind!

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     Lukas Fuchsgruber (lukasfx@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:07 JST Lukas Fuchsgruber

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     @jarango @naught101 @stags @thomasfuchs

     Maybe the Clockwork Pi Devterm is what you are looking for?

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     Jorge Arango (jarango@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:08 JST Jorge Arango

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     @naught101 @stags @thomasfuchs yeah, I’ve seen those. There’s several like them. They all suffer from the same problem: tiny screens that don’t take advantage of the width of the keyboard. (I understand why product designers do this: they’re using off-the-shelf parts to save costs.)

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     @naught101 @stags @thomasfuchs I would love to see a modern take on the Radio Shack Model 100. http://oldcomputers.net/trs100.html

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     naught101 (naught101@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:09 JST naught101

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     @stags @jarango @thomasfuchs

     There's also these https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-smart-typewriter-3rd-gen

     Seem a bit over priced though.. You could probably make something similar with an RPi and a normal mechanical keyboard for a quarter the price.

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     Jorge Arango (jarango@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:19 JST Jorge Arango

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     @stags @thomasfuchs I hadn't seen that one in particular, but the tiny screen and nonstandard keyboard make me very apprehensive. (I'm not really on the market for one of these, BTW – just saying the Epson computer would've been great for the use case when it came out.)

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     Stags (stags@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:19 JST Stags

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     @jarango @thomasfuchs I am also not much of a coffee shop writer; I just think they're neat! I am a fan of non-standard keyboard layouts, though, and I even own a bunch of ortho-linear goodness.

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     Stags (stags@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:51 JST Stags

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     @jarango @thomasfuchs Have you seen this modern take? https://youtu.be/PEFdPwA54gI?si=MstWu21FS0_LSaDU

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     Jorge Arango (jarango@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 23:10:52 JST Jorge Arango

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this was a beautiful device as well. Feels like a thing that would foster focused writing.