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  1. Re:I hate it by nedlohs · · Score: 1 · on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace

    I worked in an open plan office before twitter existed, so clearly not.

    http://www.officemuseum.com/ph... - lots of open plan offices that ever so slightly predate twitter.
     

  2. Re:Imagine this... by drkim · · Score: 1 · on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC

    Take your smartphone, tablet, kindle, whatever... that device you don't consider to a be a "PC". Now stick it in a Time Machine and send it back to 1985...

    Now, get back in your time machine and go back to 1929.
    Show your device to someone and ask them if it's a computer.

    They would say, "Don't be ridiculous. A 'computer' is a person."

    http://www.officemuseum.com/Computing_Section_Computing_Division.jpg

    The definitions of words change constantly in any living language.

    I stand as follows:
    Apple has constantly emphasized the difference between their products, and what they themselves called "PCs."
    (Remember all those "I'm a Mac." "I'm a PC." ads?)

    So, by their own definition, Apple does not make PCs.

  3. Re:1910? Photostat by Secrity · · Score: 1 · on Deleted Screenplay Fails To Make Money

    http://www.officemuseum.com/copy_machines.htm

    In the 1800's letter copying presses that could make (poor) copies of letters or other documents was commonly available.

    Photographic document copiers, trademarked "Photostat" and "Rectigraph", were available in the 1910's.

  4. Re:They had superscripting typwriters in 1973? by krgallagher · · Score: 1 · on New Bush Guard Records Released
    " In the 1979-80 timeframe there was a typewriter in use at Xerox (where I worked) that had "th", "st" and a few other things superscripted. It also had some fractions - "1/2" for sure and I remember some others."

    Yeah my Dads Underwood had this ability. This is the same typewriter he kept when they were replaced in his office working for the Army in 1963. It was replaced by an IBM selectric which also had this ability and was fist produced in 1961. Might want to look at the history of typwriters to get a better idea of what was available when.

  5. Re:So, Big Business will make it all better? by smurf975 · · Score: 1 · on Parties Behind Eolas Patent Reexam Revealed

    You may be right as I don't know any patent of Coca Cola except maybe bottle shapes and other things. Which according to you would have eventually hurt their business and make anyone make cola like coca cola.

    On a side note I found this site after looking at your about.com one. This one shows pictures of all the different kinds of paperclips.

  6. I have a suggestion by 16977 · · Score: 0 · on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!

    Okay, so somebody beat me to the goatse idea...I can't say that I'm surprised...but I can't help thinking that this picture is more in the spirit of the slashdot forums.

  7. The real truth about QWERTY by radd0 · · Score: 1 · on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard

    The QWERTY keyboard lay-out was originally designed to speed up typing by reducing clashes. The layout was not meant to inhibit the typists abilities, but to rearrange the mechanical layout of the typebars so that they were less likely to jam.

    Relevant links:

    Why QWERTY Was Invented

    A Brief History of Typewriters

    Carbons to Computers: Typewriters

    Early Office Museum Typewriters

    -r