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Wasn't this used decades before Selectric? The Blickensderfer typewriter, for example. I wonder why single-element designs vanished for a long time.
by orbital-decay 6mo ago
Wasn't this used decades before Selectric? The Blickensderfer typewriter, for example. I wonder why single-element designs vanished for a long time.
- drzaiusx11 6mo agoI wouldn't claim that the Bliensderfer's "barrel" design is the same as the "golf ball" of IBMs, but as with all things nothing is created in a vacuum; the IBM Selectric is an incremental improvement. It's like saying an Palm Pilot is the same as an iPhone.