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                            THIS is still a keyboard
                                        
Sigh.

It just really isn't my day.

I came across the USB Typewriter (Universal Serial Bus Typewriter) [1] (link
via Hacker News [2]) and I was planning on this nice post where I talk about
the USB keyboard and this image I took twenty-four years (ouch) ago:

[All I needed was a Fresnel lens over the monitor and this could have come
right from the set of “Brazil”] [3]
 

and how I still have the typewriter in question, only to find out I blogged
about the USB Typewriter 3½ years ago [4] (via Hacker News [5] no less!).

On the plus side, it appears they're now selling conversion kits, but sadly,
my typewriter (a Smith-Corona SkyRiter) is not compatible with the kit.

Sob.

[1] http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180275
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2015/03/10/Brazil-computer.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2011/09/24.2
[5] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029144

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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