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| | The Dead media Project:Working Notes:17.0 |
 | | Modified typebar electric typewriters were used as input/output writers on computer consoles. | | | Unlike the well-known type-bar action, it was hard to understand how the Selectric worked. | | | For example, if two keys are pressed simultaneously or almost simultaneously on a typebar machine, electric or manual, it is likely that the bars, in moving toward the paper, will strike each other, either jamming or producing uneven print. |
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http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/17/170.html
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| | We've Come A Long Way, Baby - by Judi Lewis |
| | Another example of an understroke typebar machine is the Caligraph of 1880, the second typewriter to appear on the American market. | | | The effort to create a visible rather than "blind" machine led to many ingenious ways of getting the typebars to the platen. | | | But not all early typewriters used the QWERTY system, and many did not even type with typebars. |
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http://www.theglassceiling.com/wib2/ww7_weve.htm
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| | a12n-collaboration : [A12N-Collab] Fwd(1): "Niamey keyboard" & "Africa Alphabet" |
| | In addition to the possibilities afforded by IBM's replacement of the typebars with a typeball, it was also possible to have typebars with changeable letters (I had one way back when on which one typebar could be so modified). | | | And then all this was on the eve of the personal computer revolution with a completely different set of possibilities and problems (in which the typebar/ball is replaced by fonts and keyboard drivers). | | | Not having read the "Thesaurus" I'm not aware of what kind of collaboration and communication they may have been involved in on the different propositions made. |
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http://www.kabissa.org/archives/a12n-collaboration/msg00516.html
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| | INDC Journal: A Quick Note (Updated) |
| | Somebody made a typewriter to compete against the IBM Executive typebar typewriter. | | | I don't know how I could maladjust a machine to get the serifs to misalign or characters to smudge like the memos show on any of them except the typebar typewriters. | | | There are 18 styles of type for the IBM Executive. |
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http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000841.php
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| | Silliness is Golden :: diaries : diary : links |
| | An insane canadian gutted an old mechanical typewriter and built a computer inside, complete with typewriter-key sound effects when he uses the keyboard. | | | Points get deducted for his apparently having to lift the machine every time he wants to insert a CD. | | | Each key needed to be hack-sawed from the typebar and then ground down....Thankfully, everything fit. |
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http://www.sebbo.org/diaries/diary/links?_start=11
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| | Document Evidence - Typescript and Word Processing |
| | During the last forty years, technology has transformed the way in which not only businesses but also domestic users produce documents, to the point now where the vast majority are computer generated. | | | In typebar typewriters, when a key is depressed, a series of levers cause the typebar to move and rotate causing that part |
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http://www.docev.co.uk/areas_typescript.html
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| | Mechanical encoding, from ~40 typebars into ~6 bits (or more) of binary code is very easy and straightforward. | | | The mechanical encoding matrix was operated by the same mechanisms (cams and power roll) that operated the typebars. | | | The rebound probably makes it return much faster than if the ribbon and paper provided the "bounce". |
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http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/friden/bodley.txt
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| | Remington 3B |
| | In Remington portables of the 1920s, the same typebar position was achieved by a lever on the side of the machine that pushed the typebars up from their resting position. | | | Both kinds of typewriters were produced with many subtle model variations, and at various levels of sophistication, ranging from fancy machines with many features to cut-rate, sheet metal portables for the typing proletariat. | | | However, by 1935 Remington had already made several models which could type effectively when their typebars were virtually flat. |
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http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/remington3b.html
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| | Selectric Typewriter Museum-IBM Electric typebar Typewriters |
| | This is the 1960s version of the IBM typebar machines. | | | I haven't fired it up in several years, but it worked pretty well when I got it. | | | The Executive has proportional spacing, note the split spacebar for spacing of two or thre "microspaces". |
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http://www.selectric.org/ibmtypebar
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| | Antique typewriters - KEYBOARD MACHINES |
| | The arrangement of the typebars on what is considered the first typewriter (the Sholes & Glidden) originally caused problems as the machine was not up to handling the speed that users could attain and would jam. | | | The type is generally attached to a rod or bar and moved to the platen to strike the paper. | | | Sun #2 ca 1901 s/n 2462 This machine literally was the beginning of the end of the index typewriter due to it being an affordable ($22.50, Sears & Roebuck) lightweight typebar machine! |
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http://users.erols.com/chuck101/keyboard.htm
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| | Antique typewriters - INDEX MACHINES |
| | In a time when a standard, or typebar, machine could run $100-$125, the index machines could be had for as little as $1, generally no more than $15-20! | | | Yes, this was usually a slow and arduous process, but the cost of the index machine made it very appealing. | | | It was the only index machine that they made and even had the typeball and carriage of the regular Blick #5 typebar machine. |
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http://users.erols.com/chuck101/idex.htm
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| | The IBM 402 Accounting Machine |
| | The IBM 403 was identical to the 402 except it could print up to three lines from one card instead of only one. | | | The 402 series, like the 405 before it, used a typebar print mechanism, in which each column (up to 88, depending on model and options) has its own type bar. | | | Typebars were used until the 407 (1949), which was equipped with faster type wheels. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/402.html
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| | typebar : QuicklyFind Info |
| | There has been a problem accessing information about typebar | | | Current topic : typebar - View Index - Search for : |
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http://www.quicklyfind.com/info/typebar.htm
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| | The Shape of Days: Exclusive: IBM Executive conclusively ruled out |
| | Type alignment on typebar typewriters was adjusted by actually bending the typebars with special tools (IBM insisted on using the term "forming" rather than bending). | | | For example, in the memos a "t" in one word may appear to be too low, but in the next word the "t" will be correct. | | | The great advancement of the Selectrics was that type alignment was almost always perfect compared to a typebar machine, but as mentioned earlier these memos could not have ben produced by a Selectric. |
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http://shapeofdays.typepad.com/the_shape_of_days/2004/09/exclusive_ibm_e.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Typewriter |
| | The advantage of the Hammond machine was the interchangeability of type shuttles, making possible the use of a variety of typefaces on the same machine. | | | Two entirely different designs of typewriter that did not use the typebar system were also introduced in the U.S. during the 1880s and '90s. | | | The smallest of modern portable typewriters are no larger than an unabridged dictionary and offer most of the features of full-sized office machines. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761571837___3/Typewriter.html
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| | Collector Network - Rare US Coins, World Coins, Banknotes, Paper Money, Cards and Stamps |
| | This creates new problems: on downstrike-from-the-front machines, the typebars tend to block the typist's view of the paper; on downstrike-from-the-back machines, the paper must be collected in a basket once it has been typed upon. | | | The disadvantages of this arrangement are obvious, but it took a surprising amount of ingenuity to solve the problem. | | | Remington was particularly prolific with its portables, producing dozens of different models during the 1920s and 1930s, many of which use an interesting "folding typebar" design: the typebars lie flat until they are raised into the printing position by a lever on the side of the machine. |
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http://www.collectornetwork.com/article_howtocollect
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| | Typewriter - Wikipedia |
| | In the original design style, now known as a "mechanical" or "manual" typewriter, each key was attached to a typebar that had the corresponding letter molded into its other end. | | | Nevertheless, up to the 1980s, electric typewriters could be better described as "power-assisted typewriters." They contained only a single electrical component in them, the motor. | | | This was eventually achieved with ingenious mechanical designs, and so-called "visible typewriters" were introduced in 1895. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
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| | Daisy wheel printer - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Daisy wheel printers were fairly common in the 1980s, but were always less popular than ballistic wire printers due to the latter's ability to print graphics and different fonts. | | | In many respects the daisy wheel is similar to a standard typewriter in the way it forms its letters on the page, differing only in the details of the mechanism (daisy wheel vs typebar or IBM 'typeball'). | | | The printer turns the wheel to line up the proper letter under a single pawl which then strikes the back of the letter and drives it into the paper. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/daisy_wheel_printer.htm
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| | Antique Typewriter, Barlock |
| | This site was created on May 15, 1996. | | | This device was nothing more than a set of pins that would allow only one key to enter it at a time, thus avoiding typebar crashing. | | | The name Barlock was derived from the typebar locking mechanism designed to insure proper alignment at the printing point. |
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http://www.typewritercollector.com/memorylane/barlock.htm
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| | Typebar - Wikipedia |
| | There are generally two characters per typebar; one which will be printed if the key is struck by itself, the other of which will be printed if the key is struck while the shift key is depressed. | | | Such jamming led to the creation of the QWERTY keyboard. | | | Wikimedia needs your help in its US$200,000 fund drive. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typebar
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| | Electrics, for the most part, are driven by a spining cylinder inside the machine. | | | New mechanisms were developed that let the typebars hit the front of the platten and make it easy for you to read what you had written right away. | | | Daisy wheel, type cylinders, and type wheels were early mechanisms. |
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http://www.00freehost.00freehost.com/unf.htm
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| | Reading - Instruments - Typewriters |
| | The need for typists to be trained in a standardised system, led to the disappearance of all designs other than those based on the Underwood visible system and the Qwerty layout by about 1910. | | | Up until 1897, all typewriters were "blind", that is, the typebar struck the underside of the platen so that the users could not see what they were typing. | | | In 1889, George Blickensderfer produced the Blick typewriter in which the letters were on a revolving wheel, as in later daisywheel typewriters. |
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http://www.portobello.com.au/portobello/reading/instruments_typewriters.htm
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| | Fox |
| | This machine keeps several mechanical features of the understroke, such as the dual-speed escapement, and like the understroke, it features a light shift mechanism. | | | The machine also features sturdy typebar hangers which are designed to ensure permanent alignment. | | | The carriage can easily be removed, and it is easy to check one's work with a slight turn of the platen. |
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http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/fox.html
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| | Typebar typewriter |
| | The important thing to keep in mind is that you'll need to be persevering. | | | Webpages dealing with typebar typewriter related information are appreciable. | | | Free learn to type game downloads for kids |
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http://www.typing-tutor-info.com/typebar-typewriter
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| | The Virtual Typewriter Museum: Polygraph 3 |
| | The machine also had a special typebar, with a small wheel in it, that could be used to underline entire lines. | | | The curved model printed a total of no less than 102 characters, including all accents and special characters used with the Latin alphabet. | | | It was a strange claim for a machine that was well built and actually had some special qualities. |
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http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/brands/index.php3?machine=polygraph&cat=kd
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| | Why QWERTY was Invented |
| | The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. | | | Modern electronic machines no longer shift mechanically when the shift key is pressed, but its name remains the same. | | | Looking inside his early machine, we can see how he did it. |
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http://www.linkswarm.com/viewlink-11494.html
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| | UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMICS OF QWERTY |
| | Freed from the legacy of typebars, the arra ngement of keys offered by the Hammond from the outset was more sensible than QWERTY: its so-called 'ideal' keyboard placed the sequence DHIATENSOR in the home row, these being ten letters with which one may compose over 70 percent of the words in the Engl ish language. | | | While Hammond's first model was offered with a curved two-row keyboard, with the introduction of his Model Two in 1893 a square three-row layout also became available. | | | Unsticking jammed typebar s was a correspondingly awkward and time-consuming maneuver, compared to which the jumps and slips of the weight-driven carriage escapement mechanism, or the tendency of the weight itself to come loose and crash onto the operator's foot, were merely second ary annoyances. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/David/QWERTY.html
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| | Noiseless typewriters. (from typewriter) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | By the 1950s practically every typewriter manufacturer produced a portable typewriter; all of them were typebar machines similar in operation to the office machines. | | | The noiseless linkage is a variation of the conventional typebar linkage causing the typebar to strike the platen at a lower velocity but with the same momentum. | | | Although it produces less noise than the conventional typewriter, the noiseless typewriter cannot produce as fine an impression or as many carbon copies. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=7488
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| | American Visible Typewriter |
| | A linear index machine made by the American Typewriter Co. A soft rubber typebar, similar to that used in the "American" offered in SMMA issue 33 is used and other features of the 1893 patent are also incorporated in this machine. | | | The machine is in fine mechanical condition, with the exception of the rubber type bar, which is hardened, warped, and detached. | | | As the typebar is moved from side to side, it passes over ink pads on either side of the center printing point. |
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http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/advert/da220.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | This was made from the typebar of a Standard Folding parts machine. | | | First of all, I copied the bell clapper from an "International" index machine. | | | A Bell of the correct diameter and height was scrounged from my old telephone parts. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ecatch55/projects/newamerican5/index.html
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| | Stuff |
| | A New Franklin typebar machine that I hnow little about. | | | The slide with the letters on it is moved until the desired letter is above the platen. | | | When a key is pressed the cylinder spins around until the proper letter is facing the platen (rubber roller that the paper is held to) then is pressed onto the paper> |
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http://www.00freehost.00freehost.com/pageI.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | You actually tend to develop a feel for this after a while, and eventually you will be able to do it without breaking into a cold sweat. | | | The good news is that you can get to most of these screws fairly easily by swinging typebars out of the way, but the bad news is that getting them to turn is another matter. | | | I have done this process on a number of Olivers and I have never had to use tools other than my bare hands, and I have never broken a typebar (knock on wood). |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~catch55/projects/oliver2/calibration.htm
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| | Subject: IBM 1620: war stories of 1620's |
| | It was dumping "1401" core on the typewriter console (the original 1 letter per typebar), and the majority of typeouts were the digit "zero". | | | A co-worker and I were watching it run a 1401 program, and I turned on a trace routine I built in. | | | Suddenly, as we watched, the zero typebar was returning and snapped off due to stress. |
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http://hissa.nist.gov/mlists/ibm1620/200108/20010829-2.html
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| | Invent Now Hall of Fame Search Inventor Profile |
| | After receiving his B.S., he continued his studies at Yale and received his Ph.D. in 1899. | | | While in college, he continued to invent-an improved typebar movement for his typewriter, an improved compass joint, a 'puzzle game'-all to help defray his expenses. | | | His father sent him to the Mt. Hermon (Massachusetts) School for Boys and from there he entered Yale University. |
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http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/40.html
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| | History Of Teletype Development HISTORY OF TELETYPEWRITER DEVELOPMENT |
| | The fruit of these early efforts was a typebar page printer (Patent No. 888,335; filed August 22, 1903; issued May 19, 1908) and a typewheel printing telegraph machine (Patent No. 862,402; filed August 6, 1904; issued August 6, 1907). | | | In that year his son, Howard, a newly graduated electrical engineer, plunged into the work alongside his father. |
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http://www.thocp.net/hardware/history_of_teletype_development_.htm
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| | Highlights |
| | Interesting Canadian typebar machine by E. Horton, Toronto, with a sloping typebar for better "visible" writing, although the ribbon still blocks the view. |
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http://www.auction-team.de/new_highlights/2002_11/office/202.htm
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| | Williams Typewriter |
| | Naturally, the paper is a problem, because it seems like there is no place to put it! | | | As you can see, the typebars are arrayed in two fans, both in front of and behind the platen. | | | The Williams Typewriter is one of the wonderful oddities of Typewriterdom, featuring its intriguing "grasshopper" typebar movement. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/williams.html
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| | myTypewriter.com - Gift Guide - Remington Portable No. 2 - An Online Classic Typewriter Store |
| | Beside the double-shift key feature introduced in the No. 2 models, other major mechanical improvements include wider carriage, thicker and more protective typebar support panel, automatic ribbon reverse feature, metal typebar guards and etc. The last production of the Remington portable No. 2 ended in 1928. | | | Since the early No. 1 with single-shift key only appeared in the market for a very short period of time, most of the Remington Portables in this style were No. 2 by our definition. | | | You must obtain written permission to use any content on this page. |
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http://www.mytypewriter.com/item.html?PRID=160510
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| | The Repository of Dangerous Things - updated Sun. and Thurs.! |
| | Harper quite likes it and has replaced the typebar. | | | His grieving widow sent the typewriter away, finished his almost-completed book, marketing it as his "death novel." The widow later changed her mind and tried to get the typewriter back, but Ms. | | | Once killed a man. He hit the "K" key quite hard and the slim typebar snapped when it hit the platen, rebounding into his eye. |
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http://www.dangerousthings.net/extras/showcase/showcase1.shtml
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| | Singlestrike Ribbons for IBM, Olivetti and Royal Typewriters |
| | "Singlestrike Ribbons for IBM, Olivetti and Royal Typewriters For IBM Typewriters Typebar Models A, B, C, D with film ribbon mechanism, 5121 For Olivetti Typewritersandmdash;Editor 4 and 5, S14, Raphael For Royal Typewritersandmdash;CTS 565, 595, 995 Carbon Model 6 Ribbons per Box Singlestrike" | | | Get it at a deep discount or wholesale price at BettyMills.com one of America's leading suppliers of cleaning, facility and maintenance products and general supplies. |
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http://www.jvbsupplies.com/supplies/NUK-B42.html
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| | The Smith Premier Antique Typewriter |
| | Additionally, a turn of the platen knob could rotate the platen upwards to reveal the work being performed and a novel brush mounted inside was used to clean the type. | | | Unique in that its key levers rotated, rather than travel downward, the Smith Premier provided a light touch and superior typebar action. |
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http://www.typewritercollector.com/memorylane/smithpre.htm
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| | IBM 1440 |
| | *Basic rate of 150 lines a minute and up to 430 lines a minute, depending on typebar | | | *Interchangeable typebars having character sets of 13, 39, 52, and 63 characters |
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http://en.mcfly.org/IBM_1440
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