Otto F. Schulz, 89, the founder and president of the American Automatic Typewriter Co., pioneered an early version of word processing by employing player piano technology. His mechanisms attached to ...

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There was an all-too-brief period in history where typewriters went from clunky, purely mechanical beasts to streamlined, portable electromechanical devices. But when the 80s came around and the PC ...