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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
TV Typewriters: A Tale of Hackish Ingenuity
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
[Antihistorical note: On September 23rd, 1992, the L.A. Times ran the
following bit in Steve Harvey's Only in L.A.' column: It must have been
borrowed from a museum: Solomon Waters of Altadena, a 6-year-old
first-grader, came home from his first day of school and excitedly told his
mother how he had written on a machine that looks like a computer--but
without the TV screen. She asked him if it could have been a typewriter.
Yeah! Yeah! he said. That's what it was called. I have since investigated
this matter and determined that many of today's teenagers have never seen a
slide rule, either....