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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Clack, clack, ding! Typewriters return

Nerds. You'll get in pretty good shape hauling a heavy-ass typewriter around, so go for it.

"Think clunky, cobwebbed, obsolete?

Think again.

In a culture focused on the smallest, quietest, quickest gadgets, the trusty manual typewriter is attracting an unlikely new fan club - 20- and 30-somethings who feel stifled by modern technology.

Once doomed for dusty basements, the old manuals are ending up in the hands of people like Mariah Pospisil, 22, who pecks away on her 1960s Olympia in coffee shops or her backyard while her computer sits idle at home."
(more) Clack, clack, ding! Typewriters return - billingsgazette.com

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