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Originally Posted by squirrel

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I should start bringing a typewriter with me to have in the pits...just to show kids what we used to put up with...

Squirrel -- see this timely article in the NYTimes from yesterday:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...writers31.html

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Type-ins have popped up in Seattle, Phoenix and Basel, Switzerland, where they called the event a "schreibmaschinenfest.

... old typewriters are built like battleships. They survive countless indignities and welcome repairs, unlike laptops and smartphones, which become obsolete almost the moment they hit the market."