typewriters

One of the best features of modern word processing software, as opposed to typewriters, is that you can focus on being creative when you†™ re trying to be creative, then go back and edit to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Still, this list of writers and their preferred typewriters is interesting.

July 2005 2005

Still, this list of writers and their preferred typewriters is interesting.

Touchy-Feely 2005

One person who loves typewriters is CAAF, keeper of the best obscure literary blog in the world and proud new co-owner of a kick-ass truck.

Touchy-Feely 2005

One person who loves typewriters is CAAF, keeper of the best obscure literary blog in the world and proud new co-owner of a kick-ass truck.

July 2005 2005

So tedious was the brief space of time that he strolled slowly on the way, pausing to light a cigarette, throwing it away with the first inhalation, pausing again to listen to the busy click of typewriters from the secretaries’ room.

CHAPTER XXXI 2010

So tedious was the brief space of time that he strolled slowly on the way, pausing to light a cigarette, throwing it away with the first inhalation, pausing again to listen to the busy click of typewriters from the secretaries’ room.

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

"One of your typewriters is a slight blonde girl -- sits in the corner to the far left -- if she's still here."

Grain of Dust. 1911

"One of your typewriters is a slight blonde girl -- sits in the corner to the far left -- if she's still here."

The Grain of Dust David Graham Phillips 1889

(Any of them that weren't were written on one of those other old-fashioned thingamajiggies ... oh, yeah, "typewriters," that's what they were called.)

I still have a soft spot in my heart for Commodore 64s... Edward Willett 2006