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Typewriters We Have Loved - 31 March 2008

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🗓️ 31 March 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ding! In this week’s episode, Mark Twain would be pleased. Reports that it’s the end of the line for the typewriter have been greatly exaggerated. Well, slightly anyway: it’s not the horseless carriage return yet. Martha and Grant wax nostalgic about the pleasures of pecking away at a rumbling, shuddering Selectric. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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