# new collection (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover new collection. Page: Feed: --- ## [Can’t stop writing about keyboards](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/can-t-stop-writing-about-keyboards/) _2026-07-03 · Shift Happens newsletter_ I surprised myself in realizing that this year I already wrote three big essays about keyboards. I thought I’d share them here in case you missed them and you might enjoy a nice long weekend read! ⌘ I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either This was a classic Shift Happens endeavour, similar to a few chapters in the book, or perhaps the… ## [New in the collection, pt. 7: Junior Initial Machine](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-7-junior-initial-machine/) _2026-01-01 · Shift Happens newsletter_ This is the last in a mini-series that started on December 21 . ⌘ I regretted not being able to put a DDR controller on that book spread , but I had one even bigger regret. It happened when I spotted this Shift key in a computer museum in Belgium in the late 2024: This was such a surprise. My book is called Shift Happens, I looked at a million kinds of Shifts, and yet I have never seen anything… ## [New in the collection, pt. 6: Dance Dance Revolution Hand Controller](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-6-dance-dance-revolution/) _2026-01-01 · Shift Happens newsletter_ What was the first time you were impressed by the internet? I remember a few moments: a Polish site cataloguing the starships of Star Trek The Next Generation, a giant text file with the Pet Shop Boys discography, and the Home Computer Museum. Home Computer Museum is still around , unchanged since 2007. It feels exactly how I remember it, with the design harkening to much smaller screens and… ## [New in the collection, pt. 5: New Hermes NHI 810](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-5-new-hermes-nhi-810/) _2025-12-29 · Shift Happens newsletter_ I mentioned in the previous issue a rare two-and-a-half-thousand key Japanese typesetting keyboard that I learned was thrown away before I asked about it. It was heartbreaking to learn that. But it’s even more heartbreaking to witness a photo of a rare keyboard in the moment of being destroyed. This above was a typesetting machine made by Berthold on the day of its unglamorous retirement.… ## [New in the collection, pt. 4: Non-Canon Cats](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-4-non-canon-cats/) _2025-12-27 · Shift Happens newsletter_ Speaking of Canon word processors , I still don’t know if I can fully explain the grasp Canon Cat (which occupied a big chunk of chapter 32) has on me. Perhaps Jef Raskin was just a fascinating person who deserves a great biography. Perhaps I read Jef’s The Humane Interface at exactly the right impressionable age, where its combination of art and rigor as applied to interface design molded me like… ## [New in the collection, pt. 3: Canon PW-10/15/30](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-3-canon-pw-101530/) _2025-12-25 · Shift Happens newsletter_ As NEC was experimenting with the M system , elsewhere in the keyboard Sinosphere Canon was doing a different thing. This is Canon PW-10J, another “personal word processor” from the mid-1980s. I believe this category of “ kei word processors” didn’t really exist anywhere else. TRS-80 Model 100 and Z88 were ultraportable, but didn’t come with built-in printers. Wheelwriter and other “wedges” were a… ## [New in the collection, pt. 2: NEC PWP-100](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-2-nec-pwp-100/) _2025-12-23 · Shift Happens newsletter_ A small tidbit about Keyport 717 that caught my eye was people worrying about its memory requirements. If each key can output not just one, but more characters, and there are over 700 keys, that can quickly add up to a few kilobytes. In an era where your Apple II might have 16 or 32 kilobytes total , even two kilobytes becomes a noticeable tax. In Japan around that time, this kind of challenge… ## [New in the collection, pt. 1: Keyport 717](https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/new-in-the-collection-pt-1-keyport-717/) _2025-12-21 · Shift Happens newsletter_ As soon as the last copies of the book made it to people, I ran away from it toward other projects, none of them including print – a talk about pixel fonts , a long, wildly illustrated essay about Gorton , a highly interactive design piece using emulation in new ways , and a new homepage to bind them all together. Outside of a few small online “reprints” (I put up the contents of the Return/Enter…