Typewriters We Have Loved - 31 March 2008
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🗓️ 31 March 2008
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | com pricing shown. You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:38.6 | And Grant, there was a story in the wires the other day suggesting that the death of the typewriter has been somewhat |
| 0:44.0 | exaggerated. Did you see this? |
| 0:46.0 | No, I didn't see that. |
| 0:47.2 | It said that computers have largely replaced typewriters, but they're still typewriter |
| 0:51.3 | enthusiasts out there, and there's still typewriter enthusiasts out there and there's still typewriter stores out there and in fact you can even |
| 0:55.9 | buy an electric typewriter at a place like Office Depot or Staples. |
| 1:00.2 | I had no idea. |
| 1:01.2 | I didn't either. |
| 1:02.2 | I guess for three-part forms the kind of stuff where you need to have that physical impression on the paper right? |
| 1:06.6 | Exactly yeah that's that's one of the uses of it. The story got me to thinking about typewriters you you know, I can remember my granddaddy typing |
| 1:14.3 | out his sermons on this big black Smith Corona on his rolltop desk back in the Blue Ridge Mountains |
| 1:20.0 | of Virginia. |
| 1:21.8 | And then I started thinking about how I learned to type myself in Miss |
| 1:25.1 | Barnido's ninth grade typing class and how those keys felt under my fingers. And |
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