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Typewriters experience a comeback
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| Dec. 19, 2011
Posted on 12/20/2011 6:00:06 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
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...)
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posted on
12/20/2011 7:56:43 AM PST
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: left that other site
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:04:31 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit)
To: abb
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, meant news more than the sound of a AP teletype machine... Oh you are so right!
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:12:04 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Buckhead
I just thought you should get a ping to this for all the obvious reasons.
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:17:53 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:28:12 AM PST
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:28:29 AM PST
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: JoeProBono
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.
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:28:35 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: JoeProBono
LOL!
To: JoeProBono
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.
To: JoeProBono
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.
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:52:08 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
To: nutmeg
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:52:49 AM PST
by
nutmeg
To: Calvin Locke
Was it Dan Rather, by any chance?
To: Oshkalaboomboom
That and carbon paper. :)
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:53:31 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
To: RegulatorCountry
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posted on
12/20/2011 8:55:53 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit)
To: JoeProBono
There’s a great opportunity for the company that makes those. Introduce a subtle steampunk sensibility, battlebots, clockwork, maybe a set with a small solar panel. It would sell very well right now.
To: Daffynition
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posted on
12/20/2011 9:01:12 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit)
To: Daffynition
Rockola Jukebox Company also produced a few pf those ‘carbines’.
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posted on
12/20/2011 9:05:31 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: Daffynition
Rockola Jukebox Company also produced a few of those ‘carbines’.
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posted on
12/20/2011 9:06:00 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: MHGinTN
*sigh*
Back when great things were made in The USA..
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posted on
12/20/2011 9:10:09 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
To: JoeProBono
I don't know how many people these factories employed. Thousands.
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posted on
12/20/2011 9:12:57 AM PST
by
Daffynition
( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
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