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Subject: Re: International Typewriter Day (23 June)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:46:10 +0200
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Op 24/06/2024 om 3:43 schreef Ross Clark:
> I don't need to explain what a typewriter is, do I?
> 
> Crystal's historical notes:
> 
> 1714 - Henry Mill (English engineer) patents "an artificial machine or 
> method for impressing or transcribing of lettrs, one after another, as 
> in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or 
> parchment to neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print".
> 
> "No trace of this exists, if it was ever produced." Sounds like a pipe 
> dream.
> 
> 23-6-1868 (Milwaukee) - A bunch of Americans, including Christopher 
> Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden, patented a "type-writer", which became 
> the first commercially successful device.
> (Remington started manufacturing it in 1873, with QWERTY keyboard layout.)
> 
> He doesn't mention a date when the typewriter became obsolete.
> 

It must be called for every now and then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8dGwa2zRw
This one I didn't know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuaeXAvU3RI

In the sixties or seventies I once saw on television a
"Concerto for 64 typewiters", computer-controlled.
It sounded nicely rhythmic from what I recall. No trace of it is to be 
found on the internet though.

But I did find this:
In Spe typewriter concerto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGe9qthRUXU (etc.)
Nice language, Estonian, some poetry here:
Antidolorosum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cmRkT6BCk&t=1185s

-- 
guido wugi

Some more links:

In Spe typewriter concerto:
I  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGe9qthRUXU
II  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPdDDFMdtBo
III  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4CDJjCY6zo
IV  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPbjzIpC8l8
Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYt_QtSx-Ok

Antidolorosum with text and references:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cmRkT6BCk&t=1185s
with translation:
https://pohjakonn.bandcamp.com/track/antidolorosum
declamation:
https://arhiiv.err.ee/video/vaata/100-luuleparli-antidolorosum-artur-alliksaar-loeb-kalju-orro
The poet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Alliksaar