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ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER [1 record]

Record 1 2004-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Machinery
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
DEF

Any of a class of office keyboard equipment that falls between electric typewriters and word processors. They are defined as any typewriter offering automatic formatting; i.e. having limited, nonremovable storage. Text may be input, stored and played back automatically; ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanographie
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
CONT

Machines à écrire électroniques [...]. En tant que machines à écrire, elles bénéficient de commodités qui, sans être l'essentiel, n'étaient jusqu'alors que l'apanage des matériels assurant un traitement de texte de haut niveau, commodités parmi lesquelles : la mise en place automatique du papier, l'enregistrement des marges et tabulations, l'emploi des tabulations décimales ou numériques, le centrage des titres, [etc.]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas de oficina
  • Equipo y artículos de oficina
DEF

[...] Máquina de escribir eléctrica, equipada de un teclado electrónico y algunos perfeccionamientos limitados a la máquina propiamente dicha, o [...] máquina de escribir con memoria (almacenamiento), capaz de llevar a cabo una serie de funciones características de la edición de textos.

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