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Sunday, 8 May 2022

Purple (Typewriter) People Eater

I've reassembled the IBM Selectric I found at the dump and got working two weeks ago, after giving the mask a new look. Fifty years ago a US government department held up Litton's takeover of Triumph-Adler, believing Litton was creating a monopoly. It soon found it was IBM, not Litton, which was monopolising the typewriter market.

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