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Yost from 1873. This one even predates the SHIFT
key, with separate upper and lower-case keys.
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New American from 1906.
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Morris Contraption from 1885.
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A 1902 Lambert. Beautiful isn't it?
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Blickensderfer 1893. How would you even begin to
use this foreign looking piece of machinery?
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These are kind of scary to me, like you could accidentally mangle a hand or something...
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