![]() T he S model was manufactured until 1948, so parts (key legends and slugs) could have been obtained. ![]() I still think that it was modified post-war. It is a very interesting machine, when I have it in working condition I will post my thoughts about it. I am done cleaning it, see the picture below. I think this is all we will ever know about this machine. I've contacted the previous owner again, he recalls he got the typewriter around 1975-76, most likely in Scheveningen (near The Hague). Note: the / on the 6-key and Florin-key are the same. See the image below for the re-typed keys. It looks the machine was retyped for Dutch with the IJ-key and Florin-key. This was done by a person who had access to the original labels for under the glass keys (they all have the same design and are made from the same material). Shortly after leaving the factory it was re-typed. So this Erika seems to have a custom built keyboard. It is missing two characters, the ä and ß, and the ö and ü are placed in the top-row. My Erika does not have a 'standard' German QWERTZ keyboard. I did a little search on google and the TWDB for German and Romanian QWERTZ keyboards. Bringing marketing expertise to bear, the new Remington Standard Typewriter Company was able to bring the typewriter to commercial success.I also thought about the fact that the Romanians were part of the Axis-forces. Not only did it remedy some of the defects of the Sholes and Glidden machine, the launch allowed Remington to sell the typewriter business to three former employees. The updated Remington 2 typewriter, introduced in 1878, changed this. The first Remington typewriter sold poorly (it could only type in upper-case letters, was expensive at $125 per unit, and often broke). The 0 was added fairly early on, but some keyboards well into the 1970s were still missing a 1. 1 and 0 were left out to help shave down production costs, on the basis that these numerals could be produced using other keys, such as a capital I and a capital O. Its keyboard layout was almost the same QWERTY keyboard layout we use today, with a few minor differences. Remington made several adjustments, and launched the Sholes and Glidden typewriter on July 1, 1874. When he sold the design to Remington in 1873, the QWERTY layout looked like this: He went through several design iterations, attempting to bring the typewriter to market. Sholes' solution was separating commonly used letter pairings, such as "ST," to avoid these jams, effectively allowing the typist to type faster, rather than slower. The keys were mounted on metal arms, which would jam if the keys were pressed in too rapid succession. However, the original key layout, with the second half of the alphabet in order on the top row and the first half in order on the bottom row, led to some problems. Sholes had been for some years developing the typewriter, filing a patent application in October 1867. The QWERTY layout is attributed to an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes, and it made its debut in its earliest form on J- 142 years ago today. In fact, the layout was designed to help people type faster. ![]() There's an old legend about the QWERTY keyboard, dating back to at least 1977: It "probably would have been chosen if the objective was to find the least efficient.character arrangement."
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