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@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.ukFollowing the creation of @mwichary's book about keyboards, 'Shift Happens', has been a lot of fun over the years.
There's a Gorton Perfected Font add-on, too. You can get a taster here: https://shifthappens.site/gorton-perfected-specimen.pdf - the humble BBC Micro gets a mention early on!
Hah, this booklet is great! Among all the retro computer keyboards (BBC Micro included) there's the infamous Drop & Run cylinder using the same font.
Now that's what I call an easter egg!!
Nowhere the need for readability is more vital.
@bbcmicrobot Good advice there. By the time you’ve read that and dropped it, you’re likely to be forced to halve your typing speed, if you ever type again.
@bbcmicrobot @mwichary Is the beeb the only keyboard that has a shift-lock in addition to a caps-lock?
@rhm @bbcmicrobot @mwichary it's at least not the only keyboard with two lock keys - the space cadet had three (caps lock, mode lock, alt lock) tho the manual says the latter two were unassigned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard, and many had num lock, scroll lock. I don't know any other one with both those two... except the Olivetti M10, which had caps lock on the US keyboard and shift lock in the UK (!), while the HP700/22 had a single lock key which could be set to do either.
@rhm @bbcmicrobot That’s a great question! A cursory look found this in my files, but not much more.
