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Tag: Typewriter

  • QWERTY

    QWERTY

    Tech wars for dominance go way back.  One dust-up still impacts the modern world – QWERTY.  When typewriters were first developed, there was no standard keyboard layout. One of the first keyboards was like a piano and had 28 keys arranged alphabetically.  Another had all upper case keys.  Another had keys for both upper and…

  • Return of the Electric Typewriter

    Return of the Electric Typewriter

    For half of my senior year of high school, I was without the family computer as it had moved to Colorado with my family.  I had to use my mom’s  electric typewriter and lots of whiteout.    I’d take it out of its hard plastic case and set it up on Grandma’s dining room table and…