Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:54:48PM -0700, William Park wrote:
> Typewriter manufacturers should have re-designed it to function with computer, 
> rather than as competing and independent device.  Cut out the keyboard and use 
> AT5/PS2 computer keyboard instead.  Put serial port so that you can print from 
> computer.  They tried to compete with computer, by putting floppy disks, 
> monitor, word processing function, etc.  

Then they would have had to add paper loading ability.  Manual page
loads are not great for a computer.

If you want an impact printer for a computer, Epson still makes some
very nice ones.  Type writers didn't stand a chance, unless they kept
prices down.  Anything to make them work with computers would be making
them more expensive.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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