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		solomonb 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple squandered the Holy Grail > I used my mom's typewriter, which she typed her thesis on in the 1950s The point was that later typewriters had a features like memory, automatic indentation and erasing that were not available in 1950s era typewriters..

analog31 11 months ago [–]

Yes, but nobody was buying those for personal or student use, and the really cheap ones came later.

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