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Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: pitashen on Mon, 25 April 2011, 22:32:34

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1380383/Godrej-Boyce-Worlds-typewriter-factory-closes-doors-Mumbai.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/25/article-1380383-0BC4DA8A00000578-570_468x326.jpg)

Well, at least there is still a lot of life left for the computer keyboards :D

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: audioave10 on Mon, 25 April 2011, 23:00:09

I'm suprised they were still in production. I guess India finally gave up.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: Mr. Perfect on Mon, 25 April 2011, 23:11:31

Those are nice looking key caps, assuming you're into the steampunk themed boards.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: digitalleftovers on Tue, 26 April 2011, 00:28:06

And here I thought jewelry makers and those steam punk modders were hunting through flea markets to acquire those key caps.  I guess there will be more work for them without typewriters.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: strum4h on Tue, 26 April 2011, 02:06:29

They will be crawling back when WW3 hits and all computers get fried from emp blasts

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: elef on Tue, 26 April 2011, 02:38:27

I can guarantee you that this wasn't the last typewriter manufacturer. The guy probably just said they were the last Indian typewriter maker, which is probably not true either. It's not like the daily mail is a reliable source of information, after all.
2 minutes of googling turn up what appears to be an active typewriter maker in China: http://www.cnofficeproducts.com/typewriter.htm
I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of small firms still going at it.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: The Solutor on Tue, 26 April 2011, 08:02:42

Quote from: elef;337376

I can guarantee you that this wasn't the last typewriter manufacturer. The guy probably just said they were the last Indian typewriter maker, which is probably not true either. It's not like the daily mail is a reliable source of information, after all.
2 minutes of googling turn up what appears to be an active typewriter maker in China: http://www.cnofficeproducts.com/typewriter.htm
I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of small firms still going at it.

 

Brother still has the typewriters page on its website, i presume that if sold them it also produce them somewhere...

http://www.brother-usa.com/typewriters/default.aspx?src=productIndex

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: digitalleftovers on Tue, 26 April 2011, 10:45:00

This chinese company claims to be a manufacturer, but also resells:

http://www.cnofficeproducts.com/typewriter.htm (http://www.cnofficeproducts.com/typewriter.htm)

I can foresee the existence of hand made or small batch typewriters being made now and into the future.  People still buy abaci for their novelty, so people will still want a typewriter in the corner of their office 50 years from now.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: theferenc on Tue, 26 April 2011, 10:53:00

The Brother EM-630 even has a single density floppy drive! For unlimited storage capacity, and easy transfer of ASCII files to your computer.

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: quadibloc on Tue, 26 April 2011, 11:18:33

Yes, a friend told me about this news story, and a short search showed that while the Indian company indeed made the world's last manual typewriters, Swintec made electronic typewriters for use in prisons - and then another story mentioned Brother. So you can still get an impact printer with an attached keyboard...

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: The Solutor on Tue, 26 April 2011, 11:41:54

Ok, this made more sense...

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: The Solutor on Tue, 26 April 2011, 11:45:10

Quote from: theferenc;337516

The Brother EM-630 even has a single density floppy drive! For unlimited storage capacity, and easy transfer of ASCII files to your computer.

 
If someone @googleplex read this will surely think to transfer all the youtube movies on floppy :D

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: brkim1324 on Tue, 26 April 2011, 11:55:40

No!! Now i cannot have all the typing machines!!!

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: quadibloc on Tue, 26 April 2011, 12:53:35

Well, if it's the last manual typewriter factory, that's still the end of an era, so here's some music to remember it by:

Title: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
Post by: Mr. Perfect on Tue, 26 April 2011, 17:04:21

Yeah, end of an era. Somewhere on an obscure internet forum devoted to mechanical [strike]keyboards[/strike] typewriters there is a hurricane brewing in a teacup.