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Typewriter turned into a PC

Prototype turned a Smith-Corona 210 Automatic into a modern personal computer, with the only obvious addition being the ...
Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable typewriter. As the 20th century wore on, the typewriter became electric ...
The heavily illustrated book comes in two volumes. “Shift Happens” offers exhaustively researched stories and discoveries about the people, politics, and technology behind typewriters and computer ...
The AlphaSmart Neo2 is a portable word processor that was released nearly two decades ago as a device that provides a distraction-free writing experience without all the extra stuff that comes with a ...
What’re we on, Microsoft Word version 20 now? Do you ever wonder what became of all those typewriters that word-processing software rendered obsolete? We know where a few of them went, at least those ...