[JoeProBono]

[Venturer]

I have forms that I have to fill out that cannot be done on a computer printer, so I have to print on them with pen and ink.

It would be nice to have an old typewriter around for doing these forms. Might help those getting them to read them too.

[DManA]

They are old tech but they are by no means low tech.

[Roccus]

OH BOY!!!

Now if teletypewriters make a comeback, I can start working again as a repairman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9LWUIWvpU

[M. Thatcher]

Typewriters experience a comeback

Editors, apparently, do not.

(Inanimate objects cannot "experience" anything, much less a "comeback.")

[miss marmelstein]

IBM Selectric. Greatest typewriter EVER. Still wish I had one.

[A_perfect_lady]

I learned how to type on an old manual typewriter back in 1977. They're pretty cool. I miss the look of some of the older accessories, like typewriters and turn-of-the-century telephones. Everything nowadays is so sleek and cold.

[KarlInOhio]

Will "diving into the typing pool" make a comeback too?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date".

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The last typewriter manufacturer in the world closed its doors this year. If a ribbon manufacturer still exists it won’t for much longer. So if you want to be part of this “comeback” you had better start stocking up on replacement parts and supplies while you still can.

[left that other site]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX-Loj0ldBg

The music of my childhood (Big Boston Pops Fan)

[Mortrey]

Worth having in the event of a power outage or EMP-

But, if there’s an EMP attack, who are you gonna write to and who’s gonna deliver it?

(and....don’t eat the horses—you’ll need them for transportation in the obamanation...)

[FreedomPoster]

I just thought you should get a ping to this for all the obvious reasons.

[ctdonath2]

I was contracting at Smith Corona when it croaked.
Seems stockholders couldn’t deal with the notion of reduced value, so AFAIK nobody tried the obvious: continue making typewriters, just with downscaled operations focused on what remaining market existed (and as we see it still exists). Instead they tried to compete with full blown computers by loading up their LCD-laden typewriters with databases, spreadsheets, games, and other things which in no way could compete.

[RegulatorCountry]

People are yearning for solid, mechanical things, real things with weight and substance and visible ingenuity.

All the gee-whiz electronic effects and games, and the devices that produce them have ceased to be all that interesting. They’re just appliances now.

The fun stuff shows craftsmanship, clever clockwork, moving parts, metal and wood. I’ve seen limited edition computers done up like very early televisions, wooden iPad enclosures, even a giant carved wooden earphone as an artistic solution to speakers for an iPhone.

Steampunk is an outgrowth of this yearning.

[Daffynition]

My dad was an engineer at the Underwood in Hartford, CT for many years. Hartford had TWO typewriter factories... Underwood and Royal. Olivetti bought them both out...and they disappeared.

During World War II Underwood produced M1 Carbines for the War Department.

[nutmeg]

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