Marcin WicharyWho needs a keyboard
Jackson Mostoller@mwichary ooh, these are lovely photos, too. The way the yellow bounces off the grey…
Michael Gemar@mwichary So you use the yellow pegs to create one dot matrix character at a time?
I love the “QUICK BROWN FOX” setting.
Does “PROG SEQUENCE” produce a King Crimson riff?
And I like gear that has a whole panel section for “DISTORTION”
@michaelgemar I don’t think it’s dot matrix. I think each line is a character encoding. Like ASCII, but before ASCII.
@mwichary I was being facetious, but also confused because I’m not sure what this gear actually does.
Frank Verhoeven@mwichary @michaelgemar In its 5 “elements per character” setting it provides 5-bit “Baudot/ITA2” encoding. Baudot was a fun guy, invented telecommunications as a science in the Victorian age and would have been thrilled knowing we send data with Baudrates in the GHz range now.
Sam
Karl Fogel@mwichary This is actually how I write all my code. But because I'm manipulating the pins in Emacs, I manage to keep up with people who have real keyboards.
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@mwichary you sunk my battleship
Ollie Boermans
Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he)@mwichary, 8-bit telegraph codes? Now that's curious.
Though it's a test generator, so perhaps it's just intended to support arbitrary sequences.
AccordionBruce@mgorny @mwichary
The earliest commercially successful telegraph technology required four cables to move needles on a letter-matrix
A more advanced circular alphabetical button board required even less decoding training
Both fell to the less-copper-demanding but skill-restricted Morse code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooke_and_Wheatstone_telegraph
#Telegraph
Backer Charles Wheatstone also invented the English #concertina, measured the speed of light, developed 3-D glasses, and has a Bridge to sell you
#accordion ❤️🔥🪗
@mgorny Yeah, that gave me pause also.
Scott Jenson@mwichary HALLT?
Peace is Not A Fable 
Hendi
Ray McCarthy
cmdrSprocket@mwichary Now that's tactile!
Eeevan
SOwOphie 🖥️👈 👀@visionalfreeman @mwichary Volca SMS (TM)
calvin 🛋️ 
kingmoth
jwz
Roel Nieskens@mwichary Those pins *must* have a fascinating name. Or were they called just "pins"?
Peter Middelkoop@mwichary but… aren’t these keys you stick in a board? 🤔
Vincent Baeten@mwichary I like the font on this. Do you by any chance know which one it is?
L.A.
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@mwichary hex encoding?
cielak@mwichary My faourite part of this are the two rows for spare pins. Such a nice touch for lossless pin storage.
Ölbaum
Magnus Ahltorp@mwichary Both telegraph key emulation and V.24! Because I guess that’s what V24 means.
Roma Komarov*squints* Is this a 2d multi-thumb range input? *summons @utilitybend*
Brecht
starblue@mwichary <CR><LF><LS>HALLO according to ITA2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#ITA2
acb
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
StorHaj
chrisinoakland@mwichary is that a BTLSHP keyboard?
Meercat ✅