
Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance
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How to Use a Typewriter for the Chilens
A manual typewriter is what we're going to call anything that isn't electric or electronic. You get a piece of white paper and you feed it into this machine by rotating a rubber cylinder called a platen. And then you start typing by pressing down on a key. Dave even says press hard in parentheses because you got to give it a little bit of a strike much more than you do.
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