portable typewriter
Luggable text machine
A portable typewriter is a typewriter designed to be carried from place to place, lighter and more compact than standard office models.
Popular from the 1920s through the 1970s, portables typically came with a carrying case and were favored by journalists, students, and traveling writers: She packed her portable typewriter for the summer abroad.
- keyboardArray of input keys
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- carriage returnCursor-to-margin command
- ribbonSlender ornamental strip
- keysLock-operating instruments
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- Typewriterscarriage, platen, typebar, ink ribbon, spacebar
- writing machinesword processor, stenograph, linotype, monotype, typesetter
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Fixed-location personal computer
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