Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Typewriter:
Yeah! People won't give up on the satisfying finger-punches that kick up my keys, the soothing tacka-tacka-tacka-tacka-tack! of my rhythms, the regular slapping of the carriage return, and the smudges of carbon paper on their fingers, either! Computer keyboards will never replace all that!
(And what about the smell of wite-out? Mmmm...)
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Wait.
Typewriter is an instrument to get a job done.
A novel is not.
Maybe there are a few typemaniacs who type gibberish for hours for the fun of it, I don't know.
But you can't compare it.
Every person I know who loves to ride horses uses cars or trains to commute. No one of them uses buses for fun, they ride horses.
And yes, cars have replaced horses and saddlecoaches as means of transportation.
I'm not talking about the better way to have a job done: no matter how much you like the sound of it, a Waterman is better than a plume.