code & carrot

Category: Analog

  • QWERTY

    QWERTY

    Tech wars for dominance go way back.  One dust-up still impacts the modern world – QWERTY.  When typewriters were first developed, there was no standard keyboard layout. One of the first keyboards was like a piano and had 28 keys arranged alphabetically.  Another had all upper case keys.  Another had keys for both upper and…

  • Return of the Electric Typewriter

    Return of the Electric Typewriter

    For half of my senior year of high school, I was without the family computer as it had moved to Colorado with my family.  I had to use my mom’s  electric typewriter and lots of whiteout.    I’d take it out of its hard plastic case and set it up on Grandma’s dining room table and…

  • The Clicker

    The Clicker

    I have two in the living room – one for the rarely used DVD player and the other for the Roku tv which is constantly misplaced.   Most of the televisions and media devices I’ve purchased as an adult all came with remote controls.   The remote that came with our sound system had a…