1 Commodore 64/128 keyboard (just the keys)
Straight pins
Hot glue
Because nothing says "I'm cool" like personalized pushpins. You can spell things! (Although only a few things, since there's only one of each letter.)
The underneath of each key had a handy divot that would just hold the head of a straight pin. This one is particularly messy underneath - you can tell I used hot glue. Most of them are very neat-looking, and I've been using them (gently) for a few months now, without any of them falling apart.There are a few quirky keys. Wikipedia dates this from the early 80's. It's funny that "@" was it's own whole key back then, because I'm guessing we use it a lot more now. I didn't even know it had a meaning before email.
Wikipedia says that @ was an important accounting symbol up until it was supplanted by email usage. Since businesses would probably have made up most of the keyboard market, it makes sense that there'd be a prominent @ key.
ReplyDeleteOn many European (non-English) keyboards, the @ key is often on one of the number, but it's not accessible via the shift key. Instead, there's another, "alt gr" key that apparently only serves to access a handful of characters, @ being one of them. It's quite confusing.
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