Re: The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but, quoting > Wikipedia : Someone on Slashdot commented that it wasn't the factory that was closing, but the production line.

Re: The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

> >The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15], >Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011 Uh Oh, I was in Ghana last year and there was a whole raft of people sitting outside the post office with manual typewriters typing up government forms in trip

The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

David Hardy writes: > > I have long since lost track of, or simply lost, the couple of > manual typewriters I used to have, and I am given to understand that > Olivetti of Italy was/is? the last manufacturer of them. I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but, quoting Wikipedia