Errorless Typewriter (May, 1947)
Errorless Typewriternot only saves time, materials and the secretary’s nerves but makes neat-as-a-pin copy with even right-hand (as well as left-hand) margins. The electrically driven machine does not print directly onto the paper but sets up a visible line which can be corrected and adjusted for spacing before it registers.
Embryonic word processor?
That’s why I put it in “Origins”
How did it display the line before it printed?
A girl I knew in highschool got a job working a high-zoot typewriter/compose in the late ’70s. As I recall it had a tiny scrolling LED display to show a single line – for centering – and emough memory to hold an entire page. You could do a “mailing list” with it typing the body and prompting you to enter the name, address, etc. Fairly cool for a standalone machine, but 30 years later than this one.
Pity there’s no visible name on this.
That thing sure looks like an ergonomic nightmare to me… My wrists start to ache for just looking at it.
I wonder if this story is about the same “errorless typewriter?
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“Invented by Robert S Wallach, president of the Associated Development and Research Corp.”