A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing
A few thoughts on viewport size when writing (typing): When one composed on the Monotype or Lintotype hot metal casting machines, there was no way to preview what you have typed at all – no viewport. One could only find out after the type has been cast. In other words, writing blindly. (though composing on …
Bookmarked List of word processors – Wikipedia
The Olympia typewriter I had when I was 10 or 11 Typewriter – Olympia AG, Carrera, Daisy Wheel, Portable Computer System, circa 1989Photographer: David ThompsonSource: Museums VictoriaCopyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
I love typewriters. In fact anything with a keyboard on it, for as long as I remember. I asked for an electric daisy wheel typewriter (fancy!) for my 10th or 11th birthday. My mum taught me how to type on it (of course with two spaces after full stops). I think this was the one
We write differently when we use different writing tech, eg pen on paper, stick in sand, typing on a manual typewriter, tapping on the small screen of a phone, etc. Just how different, and what are the factors? Are we talking about the simultaneous processes of ‘generating a stream of ideas’ and ‘committing those ideas …
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