Typewriters Are Back

[Widebrim]

I learned to type on an IBM Selectric III in highschool. I know my sister, who was about two years ahead of me, learned on a manual machine.

When I first joined the AF, I was a teletype operator. Yep, in good ol' 1983, we were still using 1960's equipment. Things were slowing being phased out to the first computer systems.

I used a manual in typewriting class around 1970. While in the service, although computers were around, I was once asked to update (in the field) a list of medals/ribbons qualifications, using a manual typewriter; any mistakes made automatically (technically) directed the paperwork to the "round filing cabinet," since carbon copies were produced under the originals and could not be erased. Needless to say, I typed slowly and carefully...

 

[Warden]

Made the Daily Mail in the UK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1387779/Who-needs-keyboard-plug-typewriter-computer.html

 

[Saint-Just]

Steampunk at its very best

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

I completely ignored my mom's advice to learn to type. Another in a long line of things she gets to laugh at me for ignoring. The USB typewriters are on the charming side, but I'd rather that modern designers of computers would on occasion veer away from the techie look of computers and other electronic devices. I do like my Star Trek inspired gadgetry, but I'd like some more aesthetically diverse choices. In the Steampunk category, I adore http://www.datamancer.net/.

 

[Wolfmanjack]

While in the Army Medical Corps 1959-61, I served as the Company Clerk for a Dispensary Unit in Alaska. Think "Radar":

My primary job was to produce the Morning Report every day. This report was done on a manual typewriter and it had to be absolutely perfect; no erasures, strike overs, etc. After getting it signed by the Company Commander (an Airborne Major), I took it to an eagle-eyed administrative clerk at the Fort HQ, who went over it with a magnifying glass! Any slight imperfections found and it was back to the Major with a retyped copy.

Thus the obsessive-compulsive features that develop in a peace time (cold war) Army.

 

[Story]

Typewriter renaissance fueled by nostalgia, fascination
http://www.htrnews.com/article/2013...r-renaissance-fueled-by-nostalgia-fascination

 

[Story]

Also

Leave it to the Russians to return to Cold War-era document security tactics.

According to the Agence France Presse and the Moscow Times, the agency in charge of securing communications from the Kremlin now wants to spend 486,000 rubles (about $14,800) to buy 20 electric typewriters... as a way to avoid digital leaks.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/to-avoid-leaks-russia-turns-to-typewriters/