{"id":10349,"date":"2021-05-29T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2021-05-29T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:15:07","slug":"she-memorised-ibm-typewriter-codes-for-5400-chinese-characters-but-couldnt-save-tech-giants-ill-fated-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10349","title":{"rendered":"She memorised IBM typewriter codes for 5,400 Chinese characters but couldn\u2019t save tech giant\u2019s ill-fated machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostI had seen this woman before. Many times now. I was certain of it. But who was she? In a film from 1947, she is operating an electric Chinese typewriter, the first of its kind, manufactured by IBM. Semi-circled by journalists, and a nervous-looking middle-aged Chinese man \u2013 Kao Chung-chin, the engineer who invented the machine \u2013 she radiates a smile as she pulls a sheet of paper from the device. Kao is biting his lip, his eyes darting between the crowd and the typist.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I saw that\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/long-reads\/article\/3135053\/she-memorised-ibm-typewriter-codes-5400-chinese\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostI had seen this woman before. Many times now. I was certain of it. But who was she? In a film from 1947, she is operating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}