Explore the curious world of obsolete typing errors that plagued early typists and vintage keyboard users in this challenging crossword.
Vintage Keyboard Mishaps and Typos
A crossword exploring archaic typing errors, historic keyboard blunders, and obsolete input mishaps from the early days of typing.
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Across
- 1. Minor mechanical error causing unexpected character
- 2. Key that moved paper to the next line
- 5. A key that remained pressed causing repeated characters
- 7. Standard keyboard layout prone to infamous typos
- 8. Manual typewriter error caused by jammed typebars
- 11. Erroneous typebar hitting wrong character
- 12. Key once used sparingly due to paper and ribbon limits
- 14. Predecessor of Caps Lock causing continuous uppercase
- 15. Base row where fingers rest to avoid mistakes
- 16. Fixed stop for horizontal indentation leading to spacing errors
Down
- 3. Old style spacing error with misplaced punctuation
- 4. Smear caused by old ink ribbons in typewriters
- 6. Ink source in later typewriters that could bleed
- 9. Device where many obsolete errors originated
- 10. European keyboard layout variant causing layout confusion
- 13. Typing early or double striking a key
- 17. Common typing error due to oversized fingers
- 18. Mechanical arm that strikes paper in typewriters
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