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pSomething I find endlessly fascinating is interface designs that Ididn’t/I make the cut, the misfires and experiments created while designers floundered around looking for solutions acceptable for mass uptake. For example, the established QWERTY keyboard that we all know, like this one here,/p

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pmore or less “tracks” with the keyboard on even this ancient typewriter:/p

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pBut when you head over to Martin Howard’s A HREF=”http://antiquetypewriters.com/” Antique Typewriters/A, the largest collection of these machines frm the 1880s and 1890s in Canada, you start to see the equivalent of 19th-century interface design shots-in-the-dark.br /
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