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Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (Jimmy Stamp, Smithsonian Magazine)
A brief history of the QWERTY keyboard (Michelle Starr, CNET)
QWERTY Keyboard (Wikipedia)

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	Communications	Computation	Storage	Authoring	Simulation
Analog	Mail	Device	Paper	Typewriter	Automaton
Electronic	Network	Calculator	Tape	Recorder	Elektro
Digital	Internet	Computer
Hardware	Modem	Microprocessor	Memory	Peripheral	Robot, XR
Software	Service (Web)	Program (OS)	Database	Application	AI, World

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General

Portal

The Classic Typewriter Page (Richard Polt)

Dictionary

typewriter : a machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer’s type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper — Webster

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Encyclopedia

Typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. From their invention in 1868 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for recording the written word. Widely used by professional writers and in offices for decades, by the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers largely displaced typewriters in the settings where they previously had been ubiquitous in the western world. — Wikipedia

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