typewriters
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This iPad Typewriter Is Loud And Banging Fun
As keyboards eventually move towards dead silent and touchscreen, you’ll rue the loss of clickity, clackity keyboards filled with character. Hell, we’re already without the beautiful racket of typewriters. Click, tap, tap, reset.
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Automated Typewriter Creates Never-Ending Story Honouring Killed Journalists
“On Journalism #2 Typewriter” is a typewriter installation that honours journalists who been killed worldwide between 1992 and present day, by writing generatively constructed stories about about them based on their published work and the existing data of their lives (via the Committee to Protect Journalists).
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They’re Shutting Down The Last Typewriter Factory (Or Not!)
Sitting in my living room is an aqua Remington Streamliner, a boxy 1950s typewriter. It’s missing the right-hand Shift key and has an exclamation point but no number one. As of this week, it’s now part of an extinct breed.
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ACSII art goes old school
ASCII has been doing the rounds online since the first acoustic coupler connected to a BBS. But what about going seriously old school? Melbournian Andrew MacRae has been creating ASCII art 60s style with a couple of typewriters: 1965 Olympia SG3 and a 1968 Hermes 3000. It’s a great blog of his work from over…