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Typewriters The Writing Machines Of A Time Past

May 30, 2009admin No Comments »

Before Apple Computer gave us the iMac, mechanical desktop typewriters known as “writing machines” were standard issue in offices and newsrooms throughout America. The electric typewriter first built by Thomas Edison in 1872 and later proliferated in the 1950s by companies like Remington soon took over the office landscape. Later models such as IBM’s Selectrics [...]

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