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Robert Messenger
Personal blog · oztypewriter.blogspot.comhistoryculturehardware
Robert Messenger writes oz.Typewriter, a personal blog at oztypewriter.blogspot.com about history, culture and hardware. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Robert Messenger's Typewriting Blog
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I thought QWERTY was invented to avoid jams? I'm pretty sure you can still type fast on a manual typewriter. https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world...
Comment linking /2014/03/evolution-of-world-speed-typing-records.html
on “Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait”Submitted Genesis of the “Golfball” Selectric as a story · 39 points
HN discussionASCII art for a picture frame (1898) https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/02/flora-fanny-stacey...
Comment linking /2020/02/flora-fanny-stacey-1845-1909-worlds.html
on “ASCII Art in 1939”Submitted Lewis Carroll's Hammond Model 1 typewriter (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionByron Brooks invented shifting type, and hence the shift key. https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2011/05/byron-abrooks-sci-...
Comment linking /2011/05/byron-abrooks-sci-fi-writer-visionary.html?m=1
on “Shift Happens Cover Stories: guess the Shift keys of retro keyboards”Submitted The Imperial Doppelgänger – When One Typewriter Is Never Enough as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typewriters in the Sky as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oz.Typewriter: The Arabic Typewriter Keyboard and the Syrian Artist as a story · 1 points
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