Pinyin and the Chinese Typewriter

While in Paris, I also made contact with the Musée des Arts et Métiers, where I was able to view the various Chinese and Japanese machines in their collection. In my ongoing effort to track

From the Chinese typewriter to the Chinese computer…

I just returned from my third oral history session with the Chinese inventor mentioned in my posts in March and May. This time, Iwas finally equipped with a digital camera, and comfortable enough in our working relationship to use it. I took a whole memory chip’s worth of photographs of the machine, which is exquisite.