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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: MMB on Thu, 13 September 2012, 13:35:42

Title: (etsy) USB Typewriter Computer Keyboard
Post by: MMB on Thu, 13 September 2012, 13:35:42

http://www.etsy.com/listing/109183496/usb-typewriter-computer-keyboard-smith


:D

Title: Re: (etsy) USB Typewriter Computer Keyboard
Post by: Mugen on Thu, 13 September 2012, 14:08:23

Did you buy it?

Title: Re: (etsy) USB Typewriter Computer Keyboard
Post by: MMB on Thu, 13 September 2012, 14:26:01

It's pretty interesting, but not $600 interesting. :)

Title: Re: (etsy) USB Typewriter Computer Keyboard
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 13 September 2012, 14:34:49

That is cool.

I heard an interview with a famous "old" writer (John Irving, maybe) on NPR not long ago, where he said that he had always used a typewriter, but as typewriters and parts had become harder and harder to find in recent decades, he had written his most recent novel longhand.

There is something quaint and wonderful about ink and paper, but the problem of correcting mistakes is just monumental nowadays.