The Soviets bugged US Embassy and Consulate typewriters with one of the world’s first keyloggers. It was a long bit of circuitry inside a supporting bar in the typewriter, capturing text by measuring magnetic disturbance as the print head moved. This was sent by radio bursts to the Soviets.
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Mark Twain wrote the very…
Mark Twain wrote the very first novel that was ever written with a typewriter. That novel was Tom Sawyer.
Cormac McCarthy writes all of his books on a 1963…
Cormac McCarthy writes all of his books on a 1963 Lettera typewriter. In 2009, he sold his typewriter at auction for $254,500. He spent $20 to buy an identical replacement.
The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,40 …
The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,400 characters.
The first typewriter was called the “li …
The first typewriter was called the “literary piano”.