Typewriter the first major typewriter with these features. However, older "nonvisible" models continued in production to as late as 1915. A significant innovation was the shift key, introduced with the Remington No. 2 in 1878. This key physically "shifted" either the basket of typebars, in which case the typewriter is described as "basket shift", or the paper-holding carriage, in which case the typewriter is described as "carriage shift". Either mechanism caused a different portion of the typebar to come in contact with the ribbon/platen. The result is that each typebar could type two different characters, cutting the number of keys and
Typewriter in the Sky by Harlan Ellison, "Typewriter in the Sky" is compared to "Purple Rose of Cairo", "I bet if L. Ron Hubbard had written "Purple Rose of Cairo" they'd have given it a Hugo ... I mean, it is sort of a hip, updated version of "Typewriter in the Sky"." Gary Westfahl quoted Hubbard's work in a book of noteworthy science fiction quotations, "Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits" (2005). Writing for "Locus Online", Gary Westfahl compared the screenplay of the 2006 film "Stranger than Fiction" to Hubbard's story, and commented, "In taking its premise into this