Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 08:17

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In article <danpop.807802522@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> >: And more typewriters are sold every day than Mac's.
> >
> >Not any more. 
> 
> Any hard data?

I don't believe that there are any major typewriter manufacturers still in
business.  I believe the last of them (Smith-Corona?) pulled out of that
business last month.

> >There's not that many companies even *making* them any 
> >more- they've all switched over to making printers for computers.  

> Care to provide the names of some of "all" those companies who have
> switched to printers for computers?

Care to provide the names of those companies still manufacturing typewriters?

> You forgot the home users (and I've seen _many_ homes with a typewriter
> _and_ a computer) and those who have to fill preprinted forms.

My parents have a typewriter.  It's been getting pretty dusty, considering
they haven't used it in about 4 years.
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        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799
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Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:17:49 -0700
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