Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:50:38 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of volumes with typewriter keyboard layouts
>
> My! What fun!
>
> By any chance, do you have the keyboard layout for the Paige Compositor,
No.
> that incredible machine which Mark Twain financed? I read fairly recently
> that it had (apparently) a single row of keys, maybe 110 of them or so,
> and an implication that one could type whole words with little hand and
> finger movement. I'd dearly love to know what the letter layout is!
This is something other than the typewriter on which *Huckleberry Finn*
became the first ms. submitted in typescript?
You're probably closer to Hartford now than I am -- why not pop over to
his house museum and see what they've got?
--
Peter T. Daniels
grammatim@...