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> Later typewriters added ways to do this automatically All in at least the last 70 years did (I had a Remington that would be at least 70 years old now). Ther
by zabzonk 5y ago
> Later typewriters added ways to do this automatically
All in at least the last 70 years did (I had a Remington that would be at least 70 years old now). There is a lever on manual typewriters on the right-hand side that you yank leftwards that does a CR and then a LF (or vice-versa, can't remember).
- zabzonk 5y agoEdit: Thinking about it, the Remington would be about 90 years old now - it was ancient when I got it, and I'm quite ancient now. And mechanically, it must have been LF first.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoYep, and often that lever had two positions, so you yank it partway for a LF, and the rest of the way for a CR. But the really early manual typewriters didn't have this. Typewriters are old, the first commercial one was invented in 1865 and manufactured in 1870, and the first commercially successful typewriter was manufactured in 1874. Neither had such a lever.