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@@ -112,10 +112,45 @@ Six period families defined (green = P1 phosphor built on =phos=, amber = P3 on Every card now carries a collapsible "spec sheet" (a details element under the note) with up to 8 fields: input (always present, names the model — click ports everywhere including Emacs click-regions, drag needs a click/key idiom there, display widgets take no real input), solves, use (common vs specialty + where it shines), limits, origin, difficulty, prefer-when, and period (present on 41 of 84 — only where the component is clearly not timeless, e.g. nixie 1955-75 sits with keypads/telegraphs and clashes with VFD and LED seven-seg). Content lives in one INFO object keyed by card number; card() renders it. CDP-verified: 84/84 sheets present (missing-key check), fields render, zero exceptions. *** 2026-07-14 Tue @ 02:00:49 -0500 Judged the two 2026-07-13 cross-needle references covered The weather-station comfort meter is R56's form exactly (crossing lands in a printed categorical verdict; five zones vs R56's three is content, not mechanism). The SWR cross-needle meter is N13's defining mechanism (the crossing derives a number off printed iso-curves — forward/reflected watts → SWR). No new cards; both references stay filed in working/retro-stereo-widgets/references/. -*** TODO Widget validation pass -Craig validates every control via the card lamps (his worklist, not agent-checkable): click cycles off → amber → green, state persists per card in localStorage (key =gv-<no>=). Gate change with the option-1 approval (2026-07-12): the lamps no longer gate the widgets.js extraction (lossless, proceeds now) — they gate per-widget Emacs ports and the final catalogue blessing. When the pass completes, bake the final statuses into the gallery source. -*** TODO Component classification taxonomy -Brainstorm WITH Craig (after the squash merge, not solo): break the components down by use — freeform output, binary selection, multi-selection, fine-tuning, etc. The taxonomy identifies use-cases with no appropriate component, which fills out the gallery with some confidence of completeness. +*** DOING Widget validation pass +Craig walks all 109 cards; the lamps are his (click cycles off → amber → green, per-card localStorage key =gv-<no>=). Gate change with the option-1 approval (2026-07-12): the lamps no longer gate the widgets.js extraction (lossless, done) — they gate per-widget Emacs ports and the final catalogue blessing. + +Runs as a *joint loop* (Craig, 2026-07-16): he walks a batch of 10-15 and reports card numbers + what's wrong; Claude fixes them in one pass, gates on the three probes, he reloads and re-walks. The lamps track progress only — they never recorded *what* was wrong with a card, so the defects live in this task body as they surface. + +Statuses bake into the gallery source (=VSTATUS=, top of the lamp section) *periodically*, not once at completion as originally planned — localStorage is per-profile and dies with a cache clear, so at 8 cards baking is free and at 60 it's the difference between a record and a bad afternoon. Craig clicks "copy for source" under the index tally; Claude reads it off the clipboard (=wl-paste=, or =wl-paste --primary= when the clipboard path is refused) and pastes it into =VSTATUS=. Precedence is localStorage → VSTATUS → off, so the live walk wins on the machine doing it and the baked record fills in on a fresh profile, after a clear, or on velox. Covered by =tests/gallery-probes/probe-vstatus.mjs=. + +Progress: 8 green + 2 amber (R07, R52) of 109, baked 2026-07-16. +*** 2026-07-16 Thu @ 08:11:18 -0500 Ran the classification brainstorm — two empty cells and a missing axis +Brainstormed with Craig and wrote the result into [[file:docs/design/2026-07-12-control-grammars-reference.org][the control-grammars reference]] ("The brainstorm, run"). Crossed Foley's six elemental tasks against cardinality over the 109 cards. + +Added *axis 8, set stability* (fixed at manufacture vs discovered at run time). The doc's original seven axes cannot find the kit's largest gap: axis 4 lumps all one-of-N together, so a chicken-head selector and a WiFi list share a cell that then reads as densely covered. The axis is invisible from inside hardware — every one-of-N in the kit has its positions engraved at manufacture — so a catalogue derived from period hardware inherits a blind spot exactly at dynamic sets, which is what its software consumers are made of. + +Two empty cells, both wanted by live panels today: *select x one-of-N dynamic* (the bt device list, the net network list) and *text x alphanumeric* (the WiFi password; the kit enters digits three ways and text zero ways). Foley names six irreducible tasks; the kit serves five and a half. + +Period models proposed rather than invented, per Craig's aesthetic gate: the answer to a changing set was never a control but a *re-labelable slot* — jukebox title-strip rack, Rolodex, scribble strip, switchboard strips. The slot is manufactured, the label is not. + +Also found: the gallery cannot build its own chrome from its own kit (swatch chips, validation lamps, size toggle are all bespoke HTML; the size toggle duplicates card 06). That is a free completeness test worth re-running as the chrome grows. + +Still open, recorded in the doc: the full seven-axis classification, the card-by-card audit behind the first-pass cell assignments, and the display side. + +*** TODO Build the four widgets the taxonomy found :feature:design: +From the [[file:docs/design/2026-07-12-control-grammars-reference.org][taxonomy brainstorm]] (2026-07-16). Craig's gate: stick to the aesthetic — model a period control, don't invent a software-native one. Reference photo first per the usual pipeline, then judge, then card. + +1. *Dynamic list* — model the jukebox wallbox title-strip rack (page-flip browse, rich slotted strips, select one). Fills the most damning cell; the bt and net panels both want it. Alternative model: Rolodex card spinner, better for long sets and weaker at showing several rows at once. +2. *Alphanumeric entry* — model the *industrial ABC-order keypad*. Craig's four references (=working/retro-stereo-widgets/references/2026-07-16-abc-keypad-*.png=, =-letter-drum-bank.png=) plus a survey superseded the teletype: the references are all ABC-order, not QWERTY, on stainless or membrane, with colour-coded function keys (yellow CANCEL, red CLEAR/NO, green ENTER/YES) that land on the kit's palette without translation. A faceplate, not furniture. +3. *Index typewriter* — stylus over a printed index plate, print lever commits (Hall 1881, AEG Mignon 1924). The survey's strongest find: select and commit on two separate controls is a grammar the kit has no exemplar of, and it is small and beautiful. Second card after the keypad. +4. *Chorded keyset* — six keys, no key per letter; the chord IS the character (Microwriter 1978, Perkins Brailler 1951). The most compact honest password field. The kit names the chorded grammar already (R50 is its safety form) but holds no chorded text control. Third, if a compact field is wanted. +5. *Swatch picker* — model the signal-lamp lens turret or theatrical gel wheel; a rotary whose detents are coloured lenses. Undecided whether it earns a card or stays page furniture. +6. *Legend switch* — the lit pushbutton whose cap legend and colour ARE the state, press to step (MIL-STD-1472 catalogs it; the doc already cites the standard). The validation lamps are one. + +Items 1 and 2 fill the two empty cells and are wanted by live panels today; 3 and 4 are the survey's genuinely-new grammars; 5 and 6 come from the gallery-can't-build-itself finding and are lower stakes. + +Banked from the survey, not cards yet: CDU/MCDU scratchpad + line-select keys (a staged-commit *flow*, not a new selector), joystick scroll-and-fire alphabet, multi-tap/T9 letter cycling (the most practical small-panel password entry), trackball gesture (Atari Quantum), keypunch program drum (IBM 029), Enigma lampboard (a *feedback* idiom — steal the 26-lamp grid as a readout, not as entry), Teletype Model 15 tape perforator. + +Two flags carried from the survey: no true A-Z *thumbwheel switch* could be verified (Digitran/Grayhill mil-spec wheels are 0-9 or hex only), so the letter-drum reference is a *combination lock* and a card must say so rather than imply a switch that may not exist; and the trackball-gesture details are single-sourced. + +*** TODO Taxonomy audit — verify the first-pass cell assignments :design: +The cross's cell assignments were read off card names and spec sheets, not audited card by card, so "confidence of completeness" isn't earned yet. Walk all 109 against elemental task x cardinality x set stability, cell the display side (left uncelled deliberately), and argue the four untouched axes (grammar, state authority, persistence, era). Would either confirm the two empty cells or find more. ** DOING [#B] Retro widget catalogue :feature:design: :PROPERTIES: :SPEC_ID: 3ac0d42c-db1a-4d21-bce4-e63785fef0ba |