Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Clickity clack RIP

The manual typewriter has had its chips as the last factory in the world closes its doors.

It's a good thing that those that are left are built like battleships.  They're hardly the sort of thing that'll be cobbled together by olde worlde crafts types.

4 comments:

eon said...

They can have my manual typewriter when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

Somebody had to say it. ;-)

Seriously, mine is a portable, vintage 1965. There are some things it still does better than a printer. Such as not needing electricity, and working with adding-machine ribbons. Which can be re-inked with the same ink cartridge refills they sell for printers.

cheers

eon

jayessell said...

Inkjet ink?
Surely you mean stamp pad ink.

eon said...

jayessell;

Stamp pad ink, too. But I'm talking about the containers of liquid ink sold for refilling the printer ink cartridges on various computer printers (non-thermal type). They work, too.

Ink is ink, basically. If it flows, it goes.

cheers

eon

jayessell said...

eon...
That's right, the early dot matrix printers used cloth ribbon spools that autmaticly reversed.
IDC and OKI come to mind.
Later, cloth ribbons in cartridges in an endless loop.