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Typewriter meaning
A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper. | One who uses a typewriter; a typist. | A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
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For example, you can directly compare a manual typewriter with an electric typewriter, but not a typewriter with a word processor.
In addition, once a year, typewriter owners had to take the typewriter to the local police station, where they would be asked to type down a sample of all the typewriter's characters.
Typewriter erasers Triumph typewriter eraser (1960) The traditional erasing method involved the use of a special typewriter eraser made of hard rubber that contained an abrasive material.
He tries to track down the typewriter's history from online information and a directory of serial numbers compiled by another typewriter enthusiast.
A typewriter used by Orson Welles, from "The Typewriter: An Innovation in Writing" at the SFO Museum in San Francisco.
In practice, TECO editing was performed online just as it had been with Expensive Typewriter (although TECO was certainly a more feature-complete editor than Expensive Typewriter, so editing was much more efficient with TECO).
It did not wrap words, which was begun by IBM's Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter (later, Magnetic Card Selectric Typewriter).
Optical keyboard technology was introduced in 1962 by Harley E. Kelchner for use in a typewriter machine with the purpose of reducing the noise generating by actuating the typewriter keys.
The 0 key was added and standardized in its modern position early in the history of the typewriter, but the 1 and exclamation point were left off some typewriter keyboards into the 1970s.
At his home office, Katz, who is treasurer of the Texas Jewish Arts Association, uses a 1964 Hebrew typewriter gifted to him by Holocaust survivor Emerich Fuchs, of blessed memory.
Bringing a typewriter to sets, he kept on churning stories and has over half-a-dozen books, apart from his candid autobiography, to his credit in both Punjabi and Hindi — in fact, some of the former are on the syllabus in Punjab universities.
He bought Aireka her first typewriter when she was a child and encouraged her to write a newsletter she sold in her neighborhood for a quarter.
He then presents the playwright (Edward Norton), who rises from his typewriter to stand on a bare stage and present the characters.
Lady Cathy had been married to Sir Alex since 1966, with the couple having met while they were both working at a typewriter factory in Glasgow.
Never using a typewriter let alone a computer, she wrote her copy longhand in her clear teacher’s handwriting and delivered it through the letter box of The Whitehaven News office without fail on a Tuesday night for Thursday publication.
Perhaps a shiny new typewriter.
And what of that long-lost office staple and workhorse, the typewriter?
A slide projector and a cassette player set the scene as students entered commands on a typewriter-like IBM 1050 linked to an IBM 7090 mainframe computer.
By the late 1930s, the iconography of Hitler’s Third Reich had even made its way onto typewriter keyboards.
It didn’t have a bath or a shower, just a bed, a closet, a sink, a toilet, a mini fridge, a chair and a small table on which I set the vintage Remington portable typewriter my parents had given me before I left San Bernardino.