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This is a story about a unique 1947 Chinese typewriter prototype that never got built. It could type thousands of characters by combining keystrokes. The prototype was presumed lost, found this year and it is now at Stanford.

This is not news, but I read about it here today in a Dutch newspaper article (paywalled, untranslated): https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/27/lang-verloren-gewaande-...

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