And so, some typewriters started offering changeable or mutil-faceted typebars, but that would only get you a bunch of new characters… not nearly enough. (Dial-A-Type™ is such a great name, though.)pic.twitter.com/Pg06eYJLWF
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And so, some typewriters started offering changeable or mutil-faceted typebars, but that would only get you a bunch of new characters… not nearly enough. (Dial-A-Type™ is such a great name, though.)pic.twitter.com/Pg06eYJLWF
Others allows you to buy a new key and a matching typebar. But usually, only a few designated keys were swappable.pic.twitter.com/LbMsNcUGgz
Other typewriters – this is not a joke – offered twin models that effectively joined two typewriters together, but that was ridiculously expensive, and only extended your runway via 40 or so new characters.pic.twitter.com/Tz4rg5Ssqx
The most popular solution in this space was a Selectric, a typewriter with an interchangeable type ball, introduced by IBM in 1961.pic.twitter.com/y1ttaIVyQN
The “golf balls” proved immensely popular, were copied by many other typewriter companies, and in time morphed into daisy wheels.pic.twitter.com/EmFPzpG7J0
But while there were many balls with various fonts, there weren’t that very many with symbols.pic.twitter.com/1AlmbNo0Z2
Besides, that solution was pretty tough – you had to swap the entire ball, and then press exactly the right key (and your key cap wouldn’t match the symbol at all).pic.twitter.com/iC6nyRhDEx
So imagine my delight when I recently discovered an obscure third-party system for typewriters called Typit. It is very much the same idea as the Mac OS panel we looked at atop, but realized in the world without pixels.pic.twitter.com/9GDRIoMcIr
Typit was pretty clever. First, you had to buy a physical add-on for your typewriter – a special adapter that you only had to install once, and that wouldn’t otherwise impede regular typing.pic.twitter.com/DDJPmZR8Wr
I am chatting (via Google translate) with a fellow who used to distribute these in Germany. I can put you in touch if you’re ever interested!
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