New York Times discovers typewriters

[dhermann1]

A nice little story from the Times about the revival of interest in old fashioned mechanical typewriters. Fun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/fashion/31Typewriter.html?_r=1

 

[Feraud]

What goes around..

 

[AmateisGal]

I just bought a 1940s Royal typewriter that works great. I am wondering, though, if I can use it after typing on a computer keyboard for so many years...

I started typing on my mom's manual typewriter back in the '80s, but it was hunt and peck for me until I hit high school and learned the proper way to type (and then on an electric typewriter). Still, I plan on maybe typing a few letters on the ol' Royal.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

An there's this.
http://laughingsquid.com/usb-typewriter-a-retro-computeripad-keyboard/

 

[Fletch]

At least The Times is changing its focus on vintage ways and goods from creepy, mole-like urban obsessives to happy-go-lucky hipsters.

Altho I doubt we're going to see a funky wind-up-phonograph hootenanny in the foreseeable future - as far as consumerism goes, the dorkiest writer is still cooler than the hippest record collector.

 

[Lady Day]

The dorkiest writer is still cooler than the hippest record collector.

You, sir, have just created a quote for the ages.

LD

 

[Fletch]

Thank you!

I'd use it for my sig, except record guys (and they're almost all guys) can get seriously nasty when insulted.

 

[dhermann1]

I used to have my grandmother's old Smith Corona Elite portable typewriter. I lost it in a move decades ago, and I still mourn its loss. But I do have the typewwriter my old girlfriend's dad used when he was at Oxford in the late 1940's. Tres cool.

 

[Gingerella72]

I love this!

 

[Chas]

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