From the Sydney Morning Herald, March 17, 1986.
Ah, leaders of the early typewriter insurgency: writers and old ladies!
Read the rest of this feature here: The clackety-clack ping! machines still have their place.
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I’m surprised that 3/4 of New Yorker writers still used typewriters in 1986. Interesting clipping.
That figure surprised me too. I wonder what the percentage is today. Certainly, in this digital age, it’s probably low. In any case, the file copy probably has to be submitted online.
We typospherians, writers, and old ladies don’t want to be retrained!
Richard, perhaps not too strange considering that Olivetti produced the Italia 90 for reporters covering the World Cup in 1990.
As if old ladies can’t also be writers and vice versa!