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Arcane Mechanisms of Office Antiquity
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  • 1. Precision blade cutter for trimming stacks of paper uniformly and swiftly.
  • 2. Early data storage medium encoding information as holes in stiff paper cards.
  • 3. Specialized machine enabling rapid shorthand transcription using chorded keys.
  • 6. Printing terminal that produced output text one line at a time.
  • 9. Compartment supplying portable electrical power to early office machines.
  • 11. Obsolete circular input device once essential for telephonic communication.
  • 13. Pre-xerographic machine for reproducing documents via photographic principles.
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  • 4. Early magnetic tape device capturing sound, predating cassette recorders.
  • 5. Component in early computing input devices turning data streams into signals.
  • 7. Early electromechanical typewriter transmitting typed messages over wires.
  • 8. A light-sensitive process once used for quick blueprint copies in drafting.
  • 10. Duplicating device that created stencil copies before photocopiers existed.
  • 12. Device capturing voice recordings for later transcription, predating digital recorders.
  • 14. Obsolete term for photographic print paper used in mimeograph systems.

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