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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 external display, which sits on the slide, and is indeed slidden by it. "We'll ...
Go back a couple of generations, and rather than a laptop or a luggable, the office accessory of choice was a portable ...
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 ...
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 ...