R. I. P. MacBook

Achilles' heels

PS: This is my 300th typecast.

The Grants 707 Gullwing Electric typewriter

Here you see the gullwing ribbon covers (also found on some Vosses):

 

(Clarification: the '74 Christmas season and a month thereafter.)

 

The spinning shaft with three flanges is the horizontal piece in focus in this photo (obviously, the typewriter is turned off):

 

 

Here are all the ads I could find:

Gouverneur (NY) Tribune-Press, September 4, 1974:

 

 Ft. Walton Beach (FL) Playground Daily News, December 8, 1974:

Medina (OH) Medina City Gazette, December 13, 1974:

Salem (OH) News, December 31, 1974:

Oneonta (NY) Daily Star, January 22, 1975:

More typing from first-graders

Here's some more delightful typewritten prose from Brad Coulter's first-grade class in Kirkland, Washington. Brad has collected it in three short books:

Book 1: I'm Writing a Page

Book 2: Wait, What?

Book 3: I Need a Cappuccino

Among the highlights:

Thanks to Mr. Coulter and the authors!

On Turing tests, robowriters, and typewriters as symbol and reality

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

From one of the most popular poets in the world:

 

 Real typing or unreal?

  

New York Times story:

"If An Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?"

Thank you, computer

A brief dispatch from the digital domain: I'm working hard to produce a final-final text for my book, using MS Word's Track Changes and Comment features to respond to my very good copyeditor's queries and make a few last adjustments.

This is one job I would not want to do by typewriter.