A 1973 IBM Selectric typeball recorded dancers' body movements • Hacker News Board

Re: A 1973 IBM Selectric typeball recorded dancers' body movements

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Post by myself248 » Sun, May 24, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #6

An entire article about dance notation and not a single example of what the notation looks like. Disappointing.

There are TONS of videos about it, but I'm not finding what I was hoping for, which is an example of a dance "subtitled" with Labanotation.

Re: A 1973 IBM Selectric typeball recorded dancers' body movements

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Post by tsuru » Sun, May 24, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

I think these are the typewriters in the loud open office scene(s) at the Daily Planet in the movie "Superman (1978)"

Re: A 1973 IBM Selectric typeball recorded dancers' body movements

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Post by ncmncm » Sun, May 24, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #6

An entire article about dance notation and not a single example of what the notation looks like. Disappointing.

Big question: is it in standard Unicode?

Re: A 1973 IBM Selectric typeball recorded dancers' body movements

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Post by analog31 » Mon, May 25, 2020, 2:34 AM UTC

tgv wrote: post #3

I typed my first article on a Selectric using a normal and a math type ball. There was a lot of switching involved.

Amusingly, there was an early "scientific" word processor for the IBM PC, that simulated the Selectric math ball. You pressed one of the extra keys (maybe "alt" but I don't remember) and got the alternative ball. You could also move up and down by half lines. It was very quick to type math.

I used it for my dissertation. The page numbering feature could not be adapted to my university's requirements, so I printed out my manuscript without page numbers, and pasted them in by hand, then had the whole thing photocopied.