{"id":60101,"date":"2024-04-08T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=6387fe9bc306cf9a23e8e58f4c471792"},"modified":"2024-04-08T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:04:27","slug":"genesis-of-the-golfball-selectric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60101","title":{"rendered":"Genesis of the \u201cGolfball\u201d Selectric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/oztypewriter.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/on-this-day-in-typewriter-history_14.html\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It's a 2011 article, and the start is a little screed-y, but it is a _fascinating_ look at the various convergent type element designs.  \nI was aware of the Blickensderfer and TTY cylindrical style, and that IBM licensed the Marx toy for some of how it manipulated the cylinder, but there are a number of details I hadn't seen elsewehre, and I'd never come across the various precursor convex type element designs.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39975346\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}