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Haha! wow, I've seen this keyboard a million times in Norwich, but I've never thought much of it. I live locally and the only reasoning behind it I can think of is there is an Art College very close by. I have no idea if was planned or not, but its probably a gorilla piece.
Interesting that it's not an impression made by a keyboard, or it would be a reverse image (unless the photo was flipped.)
That IS a fossil! There is no inverted 'T' set of cursor keys. That means this was a pre-mouse, pre-Windows, DOS keyboard. Probably from an XT or AT computer.
The foot's shadow looks odd. Shopped ?
Flipping an image wouldn't make an indention look like a protrusion. Nothing looks odd about the foot's shadow, at all. A packaging tray or keyboard protector used as a mold seems most likely.
Proof that there is no such thing as evolu...
...whait, wrong post. XD
Proof that Battlestar Gallactica's last episode was real history and someone smuggled technology off the ship before it was flown into the sun.
@Toyg re the footprint.
It looks odd because of the well-known fact that all photographers in UK are terrorists.
This guy is so lucky not to have been tasered
Not only is it fossilized, but it's a keyboard from an early Paleolithic PC.
Truly a rare specimen.. note the lack of a windows key.
Also odd is that there is 1 too many buttons on each row of the keyboard. Clearly a relic of the six fingered aliens that populated our planet.
Dig a little further- there is a fossil CPU
Looks like an old fashioned keyboard, what with the function keys on the left of the item and not along the top!
Fake!
Ah, sorry it's not a dog washed up on a beach, wrong thread.
I can verify that it's not shopped because I've seen it in real life (I work in Norwich). It was definitely there in May 2005 so it's at least that old.
It looks very reminiscent of the keyboards of the old RM Nimbus's that many UK secondary schools used in the early 90's when I was at school.
Back in the 80's and 90's, there used to be these plastic keyboard covers to prevent dust buildup. Are those still around?
Anyway, it looks like the artist used one of those plastic covers to mold the concrete.
#5: actually, looks like it's from a Sun terminal or workstation:
http://www.sunstuff.org/hardware/components/keyboards/
(I think the two rows of command buttons on the right are characteristic to Sun keyboards)
Ravenous Pliocene clams
I've never seen it and I walk down St Peter's Street pretty regularly. I must go and have a look tomorrow!
quite right JF, this warrants a Smithsonian PC letter.
I think it is an XT keyboard, it only has F1..F10 while superior AT keyboards had F1 to (YES!) F12. I envied the AT keyboard owners so much (and I hated people who had 640k - 1Meg memory).
I think it's more likely an original IBM PC (note how some of the keys are sculpted) but it's not perfect. Don't think it's the sun keyboard, though, because the bottom two function keys are separate.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/83key.jpg
More future fossils:
http://mapscroll.blogspot.com/2009/04/baseball-map-of-america.html
I live in Norwich. I haven't seen this one on St Peters Street but I have seen another near the junction of Princes Street and Elm Hill. Perhaps there are more.
Bill here - promise it wasn't 'shopped, the sun was just shining brightly that day. And having checked, it is the one on Princes Street and Elm Hill - I had noted down the location wrongly and my camera doesn't geotag automagically [old tech, I know]
It's a cool relic of the days before touchscreens, and one I look forward to showing my children!
Actually, it's the footprint of the very rarest of creatures, Big Key, only sighted in the vicinity in or around Norwich. Scientists were truly baffled by the footprint's shape before the advent of the keyboard.
Correct link to more future fossils of the Technocine:
http://www.artcloud.com/portfolio/portfolio_home.php?a=sp&mid=420&pid=485&p=1
Sorry for the wrong link above... but that's a cool site too.
I've never noticed this and I walk near there every day on my way into work! I shall look out for it tomorrow.