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,
The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15],
Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011
Uh Oh,
I was in Ghana last year and there was a whole raft of people sitting
outside the post office with manual typewriters typing up government
forms in
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
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:
Someone on Slashdot commented that it wasn't the factory that was
closing, but the
