I had an uncle who owned two type writer repair shops back in the day. He made a real nice living from the business and went on very big vacation trips every year. Hard to believe in this day and age.
Like many of us I moved from manual typewriter to electric typewriter to word processor to computer. My first computer was a huge and heavy Royal, I believe; then a very lightweight Brother manual, Sears electric (”The Scholar”) then on to Canon WP, etc.
Typewriters really were bigger back then...
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/11-1937/huge_typewriter.jpg
(would have posted pic but it was huge too)
