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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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The day Return became Enter (2023)
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
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Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac
Home | Polski > Computer history > Advertisements > International > Apple Computer > Macintosh Newsweek advertisement Go back | Previous | Next Apple bought all of the advertising space in November/December special election issue of Newsweek in 1984, and devoted it all to Macintosh. Below you can see all 39 pages of…
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
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Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key
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Keyboards from my collection (2023)
The most interesting keyboards I ever acquired
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Dutch computer museums (2022)
Photos from three very different computer museums in the Netherlands