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@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-02-12 15:50:04

Prototype of a split keyboard from around 1850 made by Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the English concertina! 🪗
@…’s Shift Happens, pg 774
#MechanicalKeyboard

Flat wooden box about the size of a laptop case. With round wooden buttons on top. Buttons split in two groups, one for each hand, like a modern ergonomic keyboard. With three buttons centered below for the thumbs.
@teoten@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-09 08:42:30

Is it just me, or once you start using row modifiers, is hard to go back to a classic layout?
#mechanicalkeyboard #splitkeyboard #SplitKeyboards