Technological history: the death of the typewriter

I do not know what your case, but I grew up with a typewriter to me. My mother, who was secretary and kept a home, I knew to use the expertise of an expert in her profession. I do not remember the make or model, only it was small and yellow on the outside. In this device I found fascinating the sound of the keys, the print mechanism and the final result on paper, it was not neat or perfect, but very close, very human I would say. The truth is to do write to my mother with astonishing speed was a sight that left me open-mouthed.

With that old typewriter that I used only a couple of fingers, "I wrote some homework and more texts that occurred to me as a child. Then came the computer with a keyboard keys light and noble to his fingers. It was difficult to adapt at first, my finger instead of typing drilled to get used to this new interface. There errors were less expensive, safe, just press DEL or CTRL + Z was enough to regain the road.

Since then use a typewriter.

What's that nostalgia for the typewriter? In some British media as the Daily Mail and The Tech Herald circulated a story, let me say, sadly: Godrej and Boyce closed its factory in Mumbai, India, and with this, they say, the last factory manual typewriters. According to Godrej and Boyce, there was enough demand to keep the factory running:

Now we just have to sell 200 models and will be the end. It is a very sad day.

However, companies like Swintec announce that the business is alive and economic benefits, government institutions are its main customers. Maybe it's the last manufacturer of typewriters, they are all power-indeed, I liked their models Clear Typewriter -.

The nostalgic visit myTypewriter to get some classical model. A legendary Olympia or Smith-Corona. Surely there are other options in the network.

The typewriter was dominated for decades interface coding creativity. It was the bridge between the creative spirit and the work in tangible form on paper emptied. Accelerator was the ideas of a time with no multitasking, no tabbed browser, with no shortcuts.

Serve this short article to remember the glories of the engine with the best lyrics were written in the twentieth century. Lyrics of journalists, writers, playwrights, scientists. Free to fill the pages of such novels as One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez has beautiful stories about it. Typewriters for a brainy write scripts like Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Samuel Beckett masterpieces as En attendant Godot .

Requiem for the mechanical typewriter.

Technological history: the death of the typewriter written ALT1040 April 26, 2011 alan.lazalde
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