Article: Typewriters Make Comeback as Collectible Antiques.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)

Feb. 15--The chairman of L.C. Smith Premier Typewriter Co. issued a famous complaint.

Unhappy with the turn-of-the-century typewriter's "blind-strike" technology -- by which keys typed on the back side of a sheet of paper -- Lyman C. Smith demanded a friendlier system.

Typists never saw what they were typing, Smith lamented. It was time to move forward! he exhorted. But the board voted against Smith.

So the typewriter titan quit his namesake to form L.C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., later known as Smith Corona Corp., which became a leader in standardizing today's typewriters and personal computers.

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