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Article: The Typewriter Reaches The End of the Line
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- The Washington Post
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- July 6, 1995
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Already a generation of kids roll their eyes and shift into "Oh,
Dad" mode when their elders drone on nostalgically about museum
relics such as record players and dial telephones. Now add
typewriters.
Smith Corona Corp., one of the last U.S. companies to make
typewriters, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday
after a long illness. The company suffered from personal computers.
Typewriters are not entirely gone, just as there are still a few
LPs in the bins. But it's easier to pick up a manual typewriter at a
kitschy 1950s retro shop in Adams-Morgan than it is to buy one new at
Office Depot.
Remington,Underwood, Royal -- the great nameplates of the
typing century are gone.
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