Clickety clickety clickety DING!

It’s the end of an era.

I still have two machines, one out of the old Colorado Springs Free Press building, for which I paid $5. And another that I hold onto for sentimental reasons, because I bought it with the money from the first short story that ever sold, at age 17. (I think it was the only short story that I ever sold, for that matter.)

UPDATE: Apparently I—and a lot of other people—were suckered. It was just the one factory in India that closed. Typewriters are still being made elsewhere.

One thought on “Clickety clickety clickety DING!

  1. If we come to face electric power shortages, then somebody will revive this muscle powered technology. But I haven’t touched a typewriter in decades, and I don’t especially want to go retro…

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