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From: hanc...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:38

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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:10:48 PM UTC-4, Dave Garland wrote:

> The MT/ST and MC/ST were not really "typewriters", they were 
> standalone WP machines that included a selectric for IO. It's true 
> that their capabilities were limited compared to later machines, but 
> they could edit text (in a linear way, not random access), do word 
> wrap, accept run-time insertions like mail merge (the operator 
> manually provided the merge text), etc.

They were very sophisticated machines for their time.

Here is an ad from 1966:

https://books.google.com/books?id=sCvjjWpUMDUC&lpg=PA998&dq=aba%20mt%2Fst&pg=PA998#v=onepage&q&f=false

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