Image credit: Kent K Barnes/kentkb This BBC article caught my eye the other day (well ages ago actually), as I guess I had assumed that the typewriter was largely extinct! Forget One Laptop per Child, how about One typewriter per child?! For all that it is easy to have a laugh at the typewriter's expense, the article makes a number of interesting points: In many respects the typewriter beats the computer for simplicity and reliability. This is backed up by Frederick Forsyth who tells us that: There was the steel-cased portable he used as a foreign correspondent in the 1960s. "It had a crease across the lid which was done by a bullet in Biafra . It just kept tapping away. It didn't need power, it didn't need batteries, it didn't need recharging. One ribbon went back and forward and back until it was a rag, almost, and out came the dispatches." Better Security with a Typewriter? Frederick Forsyth “I have never had an accident where I have pressed ...
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