SAIL Keyboard

SAIL Keyboard. (SAIL = Stanford AI Lab.) Dated about before 1974.

SAIL keyboard is for the Stanford AI lab Datadisc and III displays connected to the PDP-10 computer running WAITS.

Note, SAIL was started in 1963 by John McCarthy (inventor of LISP programing language) , after he moved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Stanford.

SAIL was one of the leading centers for AI research and an early ARPANET site.

[see On Lisp]

[see Lisp Machine Keyboards]

Note the short spacebar.

[see Typewriter Spacebar History]

[see Tiny Space Bar on Japanese Keyboards]

Note, 0 is placed to the left of 1. See this thread on a bit history of that. https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1017272422402162688

2018-07-27 thanks to Lars Brinkhoff for info on SAIL keyboard. • http://lars.nocrew.org/ • https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff

Knight Keyboard

Knight Keyboard