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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: International Typewriter Day (23 June)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:08:42 +1200
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On 26/06/2024 2:46 a.m., wugi wrote:
> 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
> 

Hey, thanks! Typewriter music was once a favourite fantasy of mine, 
though I never actually wrote or played any.