David Hardy <belovedbold...@gmail.com> writes: > > I have long since lost track of, or simply lost, the couple of > manual typewriters I used to have, and I am given to understand that > Olivetti of Italy was/is? the last manufacturer of them.
I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but, quoting Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#End_of_an_era>: The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15], Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011, after the annual production had fallen below 1000 units. Rapid industrial changes that embrace PC's and laptops also resulted in the decline of typewriters.[16] [...] [15] CBC News (April 26), World's last typewriter plant stops production, retrieved April 27, 2011 [...] [16] Daily Mail (April 26), The end of the line: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors, retrieved April 27, 2011 > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <mad...@li.org> wrote: > > I still have my old SEARS portable, manual (non-electric) typewriter > > in my closet. > > I still have my Corona Model 3 typewriter. Built circa 1920. Just > "Corona"; it was before they merged with Smith. It belonged to my > grandfather. It still works. I once used it to type a paper for > middle/high school, when my PC crapped out for some reason (I had, of > course, waited until the night before it was due). It has two shift > keys: CAP and FIG, the later of which does numbers and punctuation. > The shift keys actually shift the entire carriage/platen assembly up. > > > Today, most college kids don't know what a typewriter is ... > > Why, when I was growing up, we didn't even have air! ;-) > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
