Keyboard Builders' Digest / History

History and QWERTY

A fairly good summary of the early history of typewriters and QWERTY by The History Guy. Posted by shinjikun10.

KBD.news
Published June 25, 2021

For most keyboard enthusiast this video shouldn't contain much new info about QWERTY. Still, this is a quite good historical summary of the early typewriters.

A news report in 1905 claimed that the final proposal for the qwerty keyboard was in 1875 by a typist named Mrs. M. A. Sanders who is described as the first professional typist.

(P.S.: Did you notice how hard it is to type QWERTY on alternative and custom layouts?)

Published on Fri 25th Jun 2021. Featured in KBD #32 (source).

Related

IBM 3276 Beam Spring

A restored and modded IBM 3276 Beam Spring keyboard with USB and a wooden palm rest by madhias (gallery, sound).

SKALA computer system

The Soviet SKALA was the process computer for the RBMK Nuclear Reactor at Chernobyl NPP.

Grid Compass II

A Grid Compass from the Space Shuttle – spotted by herronious.

Model M50 + IBM 4707 CRT

Model M50 + IBM 4707 CRT posted by SharktasticA.

Aesthedes 2

The only known working Aesthedes in the world. A CAD/CAM system from 1985, whizzi worked for nearly a year to get it to this state.