Update: Well, the typewriter’s not quite extinct. copyeditor: World’s last typewriter factory shuts down Shine Jacob, Business Standard: Godrej — the last manufacturer of typewriters in the world — has just 500 machines left for sale. “We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000,” said Milind Dukle, general manager-operations, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company. [image via Bleeding Cool] Related articles Past To Present: Typewriters For Sale (brighthub.com) Retro Tablet Accessories - The Typescreen Turns Your iPad into an Old-Timey Typewriter (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) Chinese Typewriters (neatorama.com) Typewriters Catching on with Young People (izabael.com) Penguin Typewriters are Here to Remind You About the Classics (omnivoracious.com) It’s Official: Typewriters are Back in Style (treehugger.com) Word of the day #46: typewriter (brilliantbook.wordpress.com) Life photo gallery: In Praise of the Typewriter (boingboing.net) Make Cool Stuff: USB Typewriter Edition (nerdist.com)
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Update: Well, the typewriter’s not quite extinct.

copyeditor:

World’s last typewriter factory shuts down

Shine Jacob, Business Standard:

Godrej — the last manufacturer of typewriters in the world — has just 500 machines left for sale.

“We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000,” said Milind Dukle, general manager-operations, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company.

[image via Bleeding Cool]

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This is a typewriter. People used it before computers texting and iPads. It was far less forgiving of mistakes, and autocorrect was nowhere to be found, much less maligned.

laurensvanhuele:

You know what!? I’ll buy myself this Royal typewriter and start writing a book because a macbook has no soul. This does.

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