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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: quadibloc2 on Fri, 23 November 2012, 18:26:43
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I found out that the Encyclopedic Course in Occultism by Gregory Ottonovich Mebes, mentioned in Mouni Sadhu's The Tarot, a Guide to the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism, had actually been published in book form, instead of merely being circulated in a select circle of adepts. It was published in 1913, in Russian, and therefore in the old orthography.
This led me to be curious about what a Russian typewriter keyboard looked like under the old orthography...
(http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/images/rubuk2.gif)
The top three keyboards show the evolution of the Russian typewriter keyboard; the bottom two, the Bulgarian.
G. O. Mebes also wrote the second half of the book, on the Minor Arcana - it was published in a Portuguese translation in Brazil after his notes were smuggled out of Russia. G. O. Mebes himself perished in a Soviet labor camp.
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I still have no idea what you're talking about. But.......... Yea, cool looking letters. I'd say my fav is the left right K
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Didn't Russians have the number 3 back then?
We all know the Roman Empire failed because they did not have the number 0, so their C programs could not indicate a successful exit.
Perhaps the lack of a number 3 contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union.
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They used З for 3, О for 0 etc. Hell, even after ~20 years with PCs so many people cannot type numbers and typograpic symbols correctly. Inverse 1337 speak, so retarded. You're searching "2000", but there's only "2OOO" in the text, for example.
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Just as in the English-speaking world we used lowercase l for the number 1 on many typewriters, indeed, the Russians replaced 3 and 0 with the capital letters that resembled them - and 1 with capital I in the old orthography as well. The Armenians, having an alphabet too big to fit easily on the standard typewriter, designed around our 26-letter alphabet, had to resort to a similar subterfuge.
And I have now added an image illustrating that to my web site (http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/kyb04.htm):
(http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/images/armkb6.gif)
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./........ :eek:
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Yes, the Armenian alphabet is kind of different looking.
(http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/images/eacj4.gif)
What it really needs is a Japanese keyboard, but with a regular spacebar... but, sadly, it's too small a market for the keyboard makers to retool for it, even to such a limited extent.