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	Secrets of restoring typewriters
		Every manual typewriter (except the Blickensderfer) has a clockwork motor that is linked to the carriage and drives it along each time you strike a key or the space bar.
		Most of the portable typewriters sold between 1910 and 1940 or so were provided with a carrying case, normally made of wood covered with dark (usually fl) leatherette or similar material, with metal hinges, a lock and a carrying handle.
		A typewriter is a machine that holds a sheet of paper and (usually) moves it in two directions; right to left past a point at which type bars strike one after another to print a line of words; and also backwards and forward to make paragraphs of lines.
	www.portabletypewriters.com /secrets.htm (4630 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Expensive Typewriter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Expensive Typewriter was a text editing program that ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer that was recently delivered at MIT.
		His first typewriter looked like a cross between a loom and a jack-in-the-box, but it could operate faster than a man could write with a pen, and the letters were legible.
		Typewriters are now so efficient and versatile that they can be used virtually anywhere: to print out information stored on computers, to prepare continuous business forms, and to make it easier and less expensive for individuals and companies to communicate with one another.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Expensive-Typewriter (654 words)

	Expensive Typewriter - Definition, explanation
		Because it could drive a Friden Flexowriter (a letter-quality printer), it was arguably the first word processing program although it definitely was not WYSIWYG, having no CRT display.
		It was written and improved between 1961 and 1962 by Steve Piner and L.
		It was called "expensive typewriter" because at the time the PDP-1 cost a small fortune (approximately $100,000 US$).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ex/expensive_typewriter.php (115 words)

	125 Ways to Make Money with Your Typewriter by David Seltz - Chapter 2
		The typewriter is indispensable in transcribing and tabulating the material and you must, of course, have typewritten drafts for final presentation.
		Using her typewriter, she transcribes this data into neat short-paragraph form and then sells it to popular-type magazines for use as space "fillers" and, in addition, to appropriate trade magazines.
		In the evening, however, his methodical mind and his typewriter became the tools which enabled him to make a good spare-time income as advertising research man. If you like meeting people, asking questions, and finding out the "why" of things, here is a lucrative occupation which may be pursued almost everywhere.
	www.profitfrog.com /125-ways/chapter-2.htm (3551 words)

	Typewriter History - Invention of the Typewriter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The idea behind the typewriter was to apply the concept of movable type developed by Johann Gutenberg in the invention of the printing press century to a machine for individual use.
		Based on Sholes’ mechanical typewriter, the first electric typewriter was built by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States in 1872, but the widespread use of electric typewriters was not common until the 1950s.
		The renowned typewriter expert's is sure to stimulate enthusiasm all over again, bringing you new and as yet unpublished insights into the origins of the invention itself in a detailed history of the machine.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/typrwriter.htm (1109 words)

	portable_typewriter_standard_folding
		The little machine was an instant success and four years later was succeed by a design that has passed into legend as one of the most successful of all typewriters, the Corona 3.
		To conserve weight, every major component of the machine was made from aluminium apart from the typebars, ribbon spools and the folding arms themselves, which were made from steel for strength.
		The most important and most striking feature of the Standard Folding was, of course, the fact that the carriage had been designed to detach completely from the key board and to fold neatly away when not in use.
	www.portabletypewriters.com /portable_typewriters_standard_folding.htm (720 words)

	CTSS PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE Section AH.9.01 12/66
		BALL n Typewriter is using printing ball "n".
		The left margin stop of the typewriter should be placed at the point typing will begin, and the right margin moved as far right as possible.
		If the typewriter is correctly set up, the typset request "PRINT 3" will cause the two lines to be printed out with the x's lined up.
	web.mit.edu /Saltzer/www/publications/AH.9.01.html (3918 words)

	IBM Archives: The typewriter: an informal history
		His first typewriter looked like a cross between a loom and a jack-in-the-box, but it could operate faster than a man could write with a pen, and the letters were legible.
		This was the IBM "Selectric" Typewriter, which replaced type bars and moving carriages with a printing element, a sphere no larger than a golf ball, which bears all alphabet characters, numbers and punctuation symbols.
		Typewriters are now so efficient and versatile that they can be used virtually anywhere: to print out information stored on computers, to prepare continuous business forms, and to make it easier and less expensive for individuals and companies to communicate with one another.
	www-03.ibm.com /ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_informal.html (2397 words)

	Typewriters
		Second, typewriters could make multiple copies with the improved carbon paper that came into use in the 1870s and with the typewriter stencils that were introduced in the late 1880s.
		A typewriter desk with a Sholes and Glidden typewriter, shown in the illustration to the left, appears in the 1876 advertisement for Densmore, Yost and Co. Typewriter desks, arranged for Remington, Hammond, and Crandall typewriters were advertised in 1888, the date of the advertisement to the left.
		In addition to the kinds of typewriters that were the office standards, many other type-bar and single-element keyboard machines, as well as index typewriters that did not have keyboards, were sold during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.officemuseum.com /typewriters.htm (2846 words)

	Expensive
		1) " Expensive" -- In the context of Expensive
		Computationally expensive 1: A '''computationally expensive ''' algorithm is one which, by its nature, req 3: ble Sort.
		Expensive Typewriter 1: '''Expensive Typewriter''' was a text editing program that ran 3: It was called "expensive typewriter" because at the time the PDP-1 cost a
	www.lottery-news.net /dust45446-expensive.html (315 words)

	Typewriter \| World of Invention
		The typewriter is a machine that prints characters one after the other on sheets of paper.
		The first United States patent for a typewriter was issued in 1829 to William A. Burt of Detroit, Michigan, for a "typographer." The letters on this table-size printer were set around a circular carriage, which was rotated by hand--a very slow process.
		Typewriters with correction tape appeared on the market in 1973, and rotating print wheels were added in 1978.
	www.bookrags.com /research/typewriter-woi (796 words)

	History of Word Processors
		Typewriting was put within the reach of individuals by the development of portable models, first marketed in the early 1900s.
		It was a sort of "player typewriter," punch-coding text onto paper rolls similar to those used in player pianos, which could later be used to activate the keys of the typewriter in the same order as the initial typing.
		With the automatic typewriter, it was possible to produce multiple typed copies of form letters identical in appearance to the hand-typed original, without the intermediary of carbons, photocopiers or typesetting.
	www.cs.umd.edu /class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/wordhistory.html (1330 words)

	Poets and Printers
		Today almost all printing is done by a photographic process which makes it possible for ordinary typewriting (or even handwriting) to be printed in a book.
		Justification of the right-hand margin is of no interest to most poets, but there is another, subtler difference between typewriter print and the print we associate with books.
		A few expensive and cumbersome typewriters (e.g., the IBM Executive) use "proportional spacing," of which this is not true, but corrections on such machines are difficult, usually requiring retyping, because you cannot replace narrow units with wide ones.
	www.poemtree.com /Jerome/Publishing-Chapter19.htm (560 words)

	Expensive Typewriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Expensive Typewriter was a text editing program that ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer that had been recently delivered at MIT.
		It was written and improved between 1961 and 1962 by Steve Piner and L.
		It was called "Expensive Typewriter" because at the time the PDP-1 cost a small fortune (approximately $100,000 USD) and as a joke on another earlier editor called "Colossal Typewriter".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expensive_Typewriter (124 words)

	DEC PDP-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Because it was equipped with online and offline printers that were based on IBM electric typewriter mechanisms, it was capable of what, in eighties terminology, would be called "letter-quality printing" and therefore inspired TJ-2, arguably the first word processor.
		It was an IBM Model B Electric typewriter mechanism modified by the addition of switches to detect keypresses and solenoids to activate the typebars.
		Like the console typewriter, these were built around a typing mechanism that was mechanically the same as an IBM Electric typewriter.[1] However, Flexowriters were highly reliable and often used for long unattended printing sessions.
	www.computernostalgia.net /articles/pdp-1.htm (532 words)

	CNN - Books: "Joystick Nation" by J.C. Herz - Jan. 31, 1998
		This was the ur-videogame, programmed on the first computer to use a real screen and a typewriter instead of endless stacks of paper punch cards.
		And then Pete Samson wrote a program called Expensive Planetarium." There were, he explains, a whole family of "Expensive" programs on the PDP-1, at a time when even the most rudimentary computer tasks required massive outlays of manpower and federal grant money.
		Expensive Planetarium displayed the star map sort of as you'd see it looking out the window, and I incorporated that as a background.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9801/31/joystick.nation/index.html (2511 words)

	Typewriter Summary
		Many attempts to design a character-printing machine were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially to create raised characters for reading by th...
		A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
		Typewriter: Mechanical desktop typewriters, such as this Underwood Five, were long time standards of government agencies, newsrooms, and sales offices.
	www.bookrags.com /Typewriter (218 words)

	Why typewriters
		There was no need for typewriters in a world where cheap labor was abundant and where machines were expensive.
		Soon the typewriter took its rightful place as one of the great inventions of 19th Century communications technology, alongside the telegraph, the telephone, photograpy and the gramophone.
		Development did not end with the first Sholes and Glidden, despite the fact that this machine set a series of standards that are still in use today, including the Qwerty keyboard.
	www.typewritermuseum.org /history/why.html (357 words)

	corona_electric
		The ambiguity seems to be have been left in deliberately for the benefit of the scientifically naive 1950s audience at which it was aimed.
		The possibility of putting an electric motor into a portable typewriter was high on the development agenda of every manufacturer since the 1930s but the same factor had deterred them every time the subject came up for discussion in the boardroom - cost.
		Electrifying the typewriter would confer little real benefit but would make the machine heavier and much more expensive.
	www.portabletypewriters.com /corona_electric.htm (302 words)

	QandO: CBS memo "Palatino Linotype?"
		Jeff Harrell has contacted a typewriter expert and had him reproduce one of the memos on the high end typewriter CBS claims could have done it.
		Posted by: Dale Franks at September 11, 2004 01:31 PM I think whether or not a typewriter ever had the right font to do this is moot at this point.
		Posted by: PD at September 12, 2004 01:22 PM It would seem that we are collectively concluding that if these memos were produced on a typewriter, it most likely would have been an electric typewriter (no evidence of different key pressures as would be seen on a manual typewriter).
	qando.net /archives/004078.htm (2947 words)

	"Joystick Nation" by J.C. Herz
		This was the ur-videogame, programmed on the first computer to use a real screen and a typewriter instead of endless stacks of paper punch cards.
		And then Pete Samson wrote a program called Expensive Planetarium." There were, he explains, a whole family of "Expensive" programs on the PDP-1, at a time when even the most rudimentary computer tasks required massive outlays of manpower and federal grant money.
		Expensive Planetarium displayed the star map sort of as you'd see it looking out the window, and I incorporated that as a background.
	www.wheels.org /spacewar/joystick_nation.html (2500 words)

	Flickr: Serendigity Artworkz
		Let me tell you the story about the very successful photographer and the very successful writer, sitting by a gently flowing river late one afternoon...
		The photographer and the writer were in discussion and the writer said to the photographer "You must have a very expensive camera to take such wonderful pictures".
		And the photographer replied "You must have a very expensive typewriter to write such wonderful stories".
	www.flickr.com /people/maleny_steve (347 words)

	History of Hacking...Encryptoo.com
		Because it was equipped with online and offline printers that were based on IBM electric typewriter mechanisms, it was capable of what, in eighties terminology, would be called "letter-quality printing" and therefore inspired TJ-2, arguably the first word processor.
		It was an IBM Model B Electric typewriter mechanism modified by the addition of switches to detect keypresses and solenoids to activate the typebars.
		It used a traditional typebar mechanism, not the "golfball" IBM Selectric typewriter mechanism which was just starting to become popular.
	www.encryptoo.com /histhack.html (1097 words)

	CTSS PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE Section AH.9.01 12/66
		It is felt that this particular synthesis brings to bear on the editing problem an easy to use package of techniques, and might provide a model for an editor on a "next generation" time-sharing system.
		The left margin stop of the typewriter should be placed at the point typing will begin, and the right margin moved as far right as possible.
		If the typewriter is correctly set up, the typset request "PRINT 3" will cause the two lines to be printed out with the x's lined up.
	mit.edu /Saltzer/www/publications/AH.9.01.html (3918 words)

	Friden Flexowriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because of this and the better quality printing produced by its IBM-designed typewriter mechanism, the Flexowriter could be used by itself to automate the production of office documents such as form letters.
		For example, in the 1960s, United States Members of Congress used Flexowriters extensively to handle enormous volumes of routine correspondence with constituents; an advantage of this method was that these letters appeared to have been individually typed by hand.
		Auxiliary paper-tape readers could be attached to a Flexowriter to create an early form of "mail merge", where a long custom-created tape containing individual addresses and salutations was merged with a closed-loop form-letter and printed on continuous-form letterhead; both tapes contained embedded "control characters" to switch between readers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flexowriter (588 words)

	About Rajan Keyboard Repair
		It all began in the mid 1980's, when keyboards were no longer available for the IBM electronic series (65/85/95).
		Other typewriter repair shops had attempted unreliable repairs using adhesives, however their failure rate was unacceptable.
		We were the first to take the huge and expensive gamble of having the printed circuit membrane layers manufactured.
	www.rajankbd.com /about.html (352 words)

	Badmovies.org Review for Naked Lunch
		Bill is an exterminator who is unsettled, to say the least, when a giant talking bug informs him that his wife is actually an agent of Interzone, Inc., a shadow organization run by Dr. Benway.
		After killing his wife, per his typewriter's instructions, Bill flees to Interzone and is embroiled in all manner of strangeness - horny typewriters, giant insects, telepathy and enough tentacle sex to make any hentai director proud.
		Her husband Tom doesn't seem to care much about that, but when Bill breaks his expensive typewriter he gets pissed off, and Bill realizes he'd better tie up his affairs and get out of Interzone before something happens to him.
	www.badmovies.org /othermovies/nakedlunch (655 words)

	Sharon Storey -- Fine Handmade Wearable Arts
		As with all my typewriter jewelry, they're made from vintage typewriter keys, arranged in random sequences, unless you request a custom arrangement.
		Black keys are the most common, and therefore the least expensive.
		These include red keys, keys from a German typewriter, keys from adding machines and many others.
	www.sonic.net /~sharons/SWS_JMT_bracelets.htm (185 words)

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