On 9 Aug 2008 at 20:23, M H Stein wrote:
One of the fingers is a little shorter than the rest,
but it
doesn't look broken (and the LC char is blank, unlike the
rest); is this a normal index key, or is it in fact broken?
Hmmm. On a standard 64 "finger" Spinwriter thimble, a cluster of
five of the fingers is shortened to only a single character height,
which allows the operator to see what's been printed. That's on the
3500--I don't know about later models.
Cheers,
Chuck