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Old 08-02-2022, 07:58 PM
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A breakdown of how typewriters work, and how typewriter tech still dictates keyboard design today.


And the Amazing Thing That I Learned Today is that the carriage return bell isn't rung when you're out of room, but when you're almost out of room so you can plan ahead for split/hyphenated words going to the next line.


I had also never heard of typeballs and how you can use them to change the font you're using.


I also didn't know that at one point there were typewriters that stuck letter-shaped blots of ink onto the paper weakly enough that you could quickly use a piece of tape to pull said blots off and remove the letter.
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