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more about #typewriters more comments → Yerzriknot: Somewhere there's a cave painting of goatse. more » Alfisted: That note is 75 years old. Apparently, it worked. more » OMG! Ponies!: Dearest Hazel, I wanted to apologize for the way I treated you yesterday. I really am ashamed of myself. I don't know what is the matter with me but ... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: The reason why you don't know how to treat a lady, bub, is that you're clearly infatuated with seamen. more » cardboredbox: so what is this post even about?? more » njdevil: The Pirate Bay? more » infmom: I still have an Olympia portable typewriter that my dad gave me for my 13th birthday. I can't think of any reason to get rid of it. :) more » Noobs-R-Us: Hard to imagine that kids born today will not know what the hell a typewriter is. Or what a cassette tape looks like. Or what an 8 track is. VHS or Be... more » se7a7n7: This begs the question: Where the fuck are they going to buy a bunch of new typewriters from? The only places they even sell typewriters at are Good... more » GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga: It's stories like this that remind me of aircraft carriers. Why? Carriers have a little room under the deck that keeps track of ALL the planes/helic... more » strider_mt2k: We would never have gotten so much good dialogue out of "Barney Miller" if they didn't have to sit there and type reports or statements. more » Curves: They caved in to pressure from the Carbon Paper, All Forms In Triplicate lobby. more » OMG! Ponies!: GOD DAMMIT MCGARNIKLE! The last thing we need is a loose cannon like you going off half-cocked on a hunch! I got the Deputy breathing down my neck ab... more » Sticks Calhoun: I was going to make up some typewriter puns, but I'll just post some gems from the Post story! -- Sheet work Typewrite and wrong Keystroke cops. -- Bu... more » sandmanfvrreturns: Uh, why do they need a fleet of pcs? So they can surf porn, play games etc? NO. They need to type stuff and get their works done, this is a SMART m... more » -
#retromodo
ASCII Art, Circa 1934
And so a timeless truth is revealed: If you put enough nerds in front of a set of lettered keys, one of them will produce awkward art, eventually. More » -
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Every Single One of Cormac McCarthy's Works Was Typed on This
Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Now, after many decades, he's giving up his trusty old gadget. More » -
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NYC Spending a $1m to Buy New Typewriters, Ensure Cops Stay Grumpy
NYPD officers are fed up! Their typewriters are broken down relics from a previous age, making police work more difficult, stressful and demoralizing. To remedy this, the city is spending close to a million dollars. On new typewriters. More » -
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The Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report deLuxe Electric Typewriter
Steven Levy, Wired senior writer and the man who found Einstein's missing brain, joins us to recollect his gadget-laden life back in 1979. He starts, fittingly, with the last typewriter he ever owned. More » -
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1970s-Era Chinese Typewriter Has 2000 Characters to Choose From and a Max Typing Speed of 20 WPM
Charlie Sorrel over at Gadget Lab found this Chinese typewriter at an art exhibit in Barcelona. It has 2000 characters to choose from, but instead of buttons, you use levers to select those characters. More » -
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ASCII Art, Since 1948
Before there were ASCII portraits of Dwight [PDF], there was this: "Keyboard Art," from Popular Mechanics, October 1948. -
