Interesting, so it’s a custom keyboard made to look like the Dasher but with that added trackball… The attention to detail in this series is amazing. I have to say it’s worth watching if you like Kafka references, Portal, Control, and Philip K. Dick style multiple realities (it actually reminded me of A Scanner Darkly).
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They actually went to great trouble to display the keyboards, and everything is intentional.
I would have to dig up whatever article I read about the show production, but they were going for this weird, alienating dream-like feel where the computers could be from any office, as long as they felt like they were from some alternate-timeline nether-office.
Like it’s a kind of liminal backroom with floating conceptions of “office keyboard” and “monitor.” I haven’t seen the show, but I get what they were going for.
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I haven’t watched the show, but it sounds like the same vibe the game Control was aiming for; I posted about it in this thread not too long ago.
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Yeah the brutalist architecture, the impossibly immense and maze-like building, the out-of-time technology, the general vibe, even the main female character remind of Control (*). Great stuff. Every color, every element in the frame inside the office building, is deliberate. Quite interesting they went for the Dasher, with its striking color scheme. Also they do make a fantastic, refined noise when typing.
(*) edit: the Board, holy hell, they really got the same inspiration as Control… I learned that the script was written long ago so it’s a common source somewhere, I’d be curious to know. The malevolent architecture, featuring alien geometries, inside the office is also strikingly similar to the Oldest House.
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Such a great film. Plus, it was cowritten by the Wachowski’s (The Matrix).
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It’s even missing keycaps. Definitely used a reference for that one.
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That looks like a SunType 7. I wonder what happens when the air defense operator presses the Again key.
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Damn, that bug got me.
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New Tom Scott video showing off some custom keyboards made for the USPS:
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting - YouTube
I’ve never seen anything that moves the numbers to a layer under the homerow on a fullsize, lol. Hard to tell what kind of switches they’re using, doesn’t quite sound like blues or buckling, though it could just be domes that allow the keycaps to make contact with the plate for that clack they’re getting.
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The AI correctly realized AI don’t need no stinking ergonomics.
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Chonker of a keeb in prescient BBC video: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/status/1566016654357565440
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