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maxrandb

(15,378 posts)
2. I vote for however long it takes for me to get a second row
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 12:42 PM
Feb 17

This year is the closest I've ever been to the hearts typewriter having to hit the return key and ring the bell.

For the kids; "a typewriter was a manual machine used to produce documents. It used ink ribbon and keys. When you pressed a key, a hammer with that keys letter would strike the ink ribbon and transpose that letter to paper in the spool. When you got to the end of the page of paper, a bell would ring, indicating that you needed to hit the return key to move to the next line. On older models, like the one I am currently looking at, there was a lever you pulled to return the carriage to the next line on the page."

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