After a 10-year search, finding the typist from a 1947 demo of IBM’s mind-bogglingly complex electric Chinese typewriter.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2S0nhGU

To type a Chinese character, one depressed a total of 4 keys—one from each bank—more or less simultaneously, compared by one observer to playing a chord on the piano. Just as the film explained, “if you want to type word number 4862 you would press 4-8-6-2.⁠”

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