Why did the first QWERTY typewriter include a key with 3 vertical dots (to the left of A)? @mwichary wants your theories/evidence.pic.twitter.com/UUNKJtb76I
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Why did the first QWERTY typewriter include a key with 3 vertical dots (to the left of A)? @mwichary wants your theories/evidence.pic.twitter.com/UUNKJtb76I
I'd assumed vertical ellipsis. Then I found a supporting blog post. Then I realized it was a circular reference. http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/typewriters-and-pilcrows/ …
I asked the Library of Congress online “ask the librarian” service and they sent me one of those pages that I helped creating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is there really no surviving manual from an early sholes typewriter?
I'm trying to get ahold of an expert in that area/a collector of S&G. But I'm not sure there even *were* manuals then?
Damn. https://archive.org/details/handbookofinstru00unde … is too new.
Damn, how did you find this one? I literally tried to find it by name a few weeks ago, and couldn’t. Ended up ordering a hardcopy on B&N.
http://Archive.org search for type-writer. Sort by pub date. Scroll
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