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Drafting an Obituary on the Typewriter 0

I’ve made my living with a keyboard almost my whole career.

Typewriters and mechanics like Fernandez went from being endangered to near-extinct species last week, with Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai making global news when the company put in sale its last 200 typewriters. The passing of the world’s last typewriter maker, seemed like a full stop on the whole typewriter era, and was mourned by media across continents from New York to London, Dublin to Delhi.

Raja Murthy, the author, goes on to survey the history of the typewriter and its last refuges of use.

Somewhere around here I have to old Royal manual portable that followed me from high school to college and onward. I haven’t opened the case in years, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away.

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