Parisian typewriter keyboards

Does anyone have access to an old typewriting manual with the
France-French keyboard layout that they can scan for me?

Hugh Watkins...

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lenni...

Cheryl,

singhals...

Sweetie, that typewriter was an antique 30 years ago. *trust* me. (g)

Dennis Lee Bieber...

Unless you were in a military clerical office

I don't recall how many of those boat-anchors my father used to
bring home, tear down, soak in cleaners, reassemble, and take back...
They were often so gunked up that the tab stops wouldn't shift, the
platen would make reverse images on the back of the paper, etc.

{And my father's only role in clerical was doing the paperwork for the
the mess ha... pardon, "food service facility"}

Just an FYI ... I have forwarded your request to my sisters (one with
friends in France and one with relatives in French Polynesia). I
assume that even if they get an answer, it'll be a while.

My husband did the following web search:
"IBM selectric key french"
and got a couple of hits (but maybe no layouts). I'm not sure that an
IBM Selectric would have the same keyboard layout as a regular French
typewriter. But one the of the hits did mention a French letter ball
for the Selectric! An interesting, if unrelated, thought!

singhals...

Now why didn't I remember Selectrics -- oh. Yes. I hated 'em. (g)
Thanks, I'll have a look-see at one I know.

Hugh Watkins...

my apologioes for my paranoia Cheryl

DakaR...

This might be what you are looking for ?

singhals...

Ummm, no, that looks like an electric keyboard. And the "poke" and
"peek" suggest it's a CP/M keyboard.

Thanks for trying!

I had seen too may sock pupprets in sgb and mw

sincerely

Hugh W

singhals...

Peace on Earth, Hugh. (g)

If you care why, keep reading.

It's a longish story, so bear with me.

Back in the day when a computer meant IBM 3060, I was doing some
newspaper extractions at a university library. The microfilm reading
room was lit ONLY by the bulbs in the readers; it was equipped with 3
typewriters. It was not uncommon to spend several hours typing only to
discover when you got to the light that there'd been no ribbon in the
typewriter.

One day after spending 4 hours typing, I went to move the pages to my
"Completed" folder and discovered I had gotten the French keyboard that
day. And a hole in the ribbon.

I've been moving all those extracts to digital and can guess some of the
mistakes (c-cedilla for instance is really a '), but I'd like a little
reassurance about the others. I don't want to re-order the microfilms
and re-read them. The keyboard layout for the French computer keyboard
doesn't match the typewriter (can't -- typewriters didn't have ctl or
alt keys to push) and all web-search wanted to show me was computer
keyboards; I tried limiting it with typewriter and got interesting
tidbits about Italian keyboards, and the differences between
France-French and Monaco-French ...

So, does anyone have access to an old typewriting manual with the
keyboard layout that they can scan for me?

john...

Machine à écrire mécanique, Hermès 3000 (1970)

singhals...

Hmmm, thanks, I've saved it for printing, but it's not the one I used.
(g) This one is a little more jumbly ... I think. The one I used was
most likely an Underwood, but maybe a Royal.

http://perso.univ-lyon2.fr/~poitou/Typo/t08.html