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A typewriter is effectively a keyboard hardwired directly to a printer.

• someweirdperson 4y ago
  That's the modern case of an electric typewriter. A normal typewriter is a printer with manually actuated print heads for dedicated charcters.
  • brazzy 4y ago
    Looks like you haven't heard of typeball and daisy wheel printers. In any case, we were discussing metaphors, not technical details.