I'm showing my kid how to use a typewriter and just twigged for the very first time why the number one and exclamation mark are on the same key and my mind is completely blown
@th huh-- did erasure/delete actually do a backspace on these machines? wondering if you could have done the compound glyph thing on a teletype.
@dan but then how could we have endless discussions about how these discrepancies reflect upon the respective American and British National Characters™
@dan @dan @elb @phooky the model 15 had a totally different layout that also mapped directly to its encoding https://social.v.st/@th/109757460466195943
@phooky meanwhile 5-bit baudot has both 1 and !, although they are both in the FIGS space so they share encodings with Q and F in LTRS.