Editing Typewriter (section)

==== Electronic typewriters ====
The final major development of the typewriter was the electronic typewriter. Most of these replaced the typeball with a plastic or metal [[daisy wheel]] mechanism (a disk with the letters molded on the outside edge of the "petals"), or a thermal print head. The daisy wheel concept first emerged in printers developed by [[Diablo Systems]] in the 1970s. The first electronic daisywheel typewriter marketed in the world (in 1976) is the Olivetti Tes 501, and subsequently in 1978, the Olivetti ET101 (with function display) and Olivetti TES 401 (with text display and floppy disk for memory storage). This has allowed Olivetti to maintain the world record in the design of electronic typewriters, proposing increasingly advanced and performing models in the following years.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Giuseppe Silmo |title=M.P.S. Macchine per scrivere Olivetti e non solo |publisher=Fondazione Natale Capellaro |year=2007 |page=74}}</ref>

Unlike the Selectrics and earlier models, these really were "electronic" and relied on integrated circuits and electromechanical components. These typewriters were sometimes called ''display typewriters'',<ref>{{US patent reference|number = 4620808| y = 1986| m = 11| d = 04| title = Display typewriter}}</ref> ''dedicated word processors'' or ''word-processing typewriters'', although the latter term was also frequently applied to less sophisticated machines that featured only a tiny, sometimes just single-row display. Sophisticated models were also called ''word processors'', although today that term almost always denotes a type of software program. Manufacturers of such machines included Olivetti (TES501, first totally electronic Olivetti word processor with daisywheel and floppy disk in 1976; TES621 in 1979, etc.), [[Brother Industries|Brother]] (Brother WP1 and WP500, etc., where WP stood for word processor), [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] ([[Canon Cat]]), [[Smith-Corona]] (PWP, i.e. Personal Word Processor line)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Smith-Corona |url=http://mindmachine.co.uk/products/04_Manuf_Smith-Corona_01.html#PWP-series |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528120612/http://mindmachine.co.uk/products/04_Manuf_Smith-Corona_01.html#PWP-series |archive-date=2013-05-28 |access-date=2013-09-12 |publisher=Mindmachine.co.uk}}</ref> and [[Philips]]/[[Magnavox]] ([[VideoWriter]]).
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File:Type.jpg|Electronic typewriter – the final stage in typewriter development. A 1989 [[Canon Inc.|Canon]] Typestar 110.
File:Brother WP1-IMG 6991.jpg|The Brother WP1, an electronic typewriter complete with a small screen and a [[floppy disk]] reader
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