Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> Typewriter manufacturers should have re-designed it to function with computer,
> rather than as competing and independent device.
It's been done! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IBM_Selectric

The Selectric typewriter was modified to create a computer terminal.  
You'd often see them used by bank tellers.

Also, back in the mid '70s, there were plenty of schemes to use 
typewriters as computer terminals.

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