{"id":26140,"date":"2021-05-18T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/on-ibms-mind-bogglingly-complex-electric-chinese-typewriter#id29726"},"modified":"2021-05-18T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:07:00","slug":"after-a-10-year-search-finding-the-typist-from-a-1947-demo-of-ibms-mind-bogglingly-complex-electric-chinese-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/after-a-10-year-search-finding-the-typist-from-a-1947-demo-of-ibms-mind-bogglingly-complex-electric-chinese-typewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"After a 10-year search, finding the typist from a 1947 demo of IBM\u2019s mind-bogglingly complex electric Chinese typewriter."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>To type a Chinese character, one depressed a total of 4 keys&mdash;one from each bank&mdash;more or less simultaneously, compared by one observer to playing a chord on the piano. Just as the film explained, &ldquo;if you want to type word number 4862 you would press 4-8-6-2.&#8288;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90635203\/ibm-chinese-typewriter-lois-lew\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/on-ibms-mind-bogglingly-complex-electric-chinese-typewriter\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        To type a Chinese character, one depressed a total of 4 keys&mdash;one from each bank&mdash;more or less simultaneously, compared by one observer to playing a chord on the piano. Just as the film explained, &ldquo;if you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26141,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26140\/revisions\/26141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}