Monday, April 25, 2011

NO [RETURN]:  The world's last typewriter factory has closed?  Not quite, say the folks at Swintec, who still manufacture and sell typewriters to prisons and other government facilities.

I remember it was a big deal in 8th grade (1985-86) that they changed the name of the class at my middle school from Typing to Keyboarding.  I have to imagine the demise of correction fluid and carbon paper is soon to follow.

17 comments:

  1. Meghan9:08 PM

    As long as kids have to make posters, correction fluid has a market. Wait, what? Kids don't draw posters anymore? Mike Nesmith's mother and I are sad.

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  2. Adam C.9:56 PM

    Well, until all courts put their forms out in fillable PDF format, there will be law offices that still need typewriters.

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  3. Anonymous10:59 AM

    the hipsters are bringing typewriters back, don't worry....

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  4. Guest above was me.  But you should know that if it's a post about hipsters.

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  5. I have an antique typewriter that's all metal and weighs a ton. My nephews come over and like to play with what they used to call the typing machine. They think the "thunk, thunk, thunk, DING!" is cool. They'd never type a paper on one, but it's a fun toy. 

    In journalism school in the early '90s, they were still transitioning over in the low-level classes to computers. We wrote everything in Reporting I and II on Selectrics, and I remember the sound of 20 people pounding away to get a basic who-what-where story done before the class was over. If I didn't have the really cool-looking metal typewriter, I'd be on the hunt for a tan Selectric.

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  6. Anonymous6:15 PM

    Carbon Paper isnt going anywhere soon. For all the technological advances within the airline industry, they still use carbon paper and dot matrix printers for moving cargo. Everytime I have to print an air waybill, it scares the other people in the office. Sometimes a new employee will actually question what it is.

    Our IT guys panic when I ask them anything about that printer...

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  7. Maryann11:34 PM

    Just about every office at the (large, state) university where I work still has a typewriter tucked away somewhere because a handful of departments continue to require carbonless duplicate forms. (HR is one of them. It may still be 1970 in HR.) My office has an old IBM Wheelwriter that only a handful of us know how to use and we frighten the work-study students with.

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