🚀 go-pugleaf

Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
: In <nevin-0908950117490001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

: >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.

: This is only your belief.

Smith-Corona just went Chapter 11, I've heard, due to a lack of customers 
for typewriters.

A client just tried to sell me an unused S-C for $50. I turned her down.

: >
: >> >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?

: Off the top of my head: Olympia and Brother.  Probably there are many
: others, but these are the only names I can remember without actually
: going in some shops.  Last time I was at Interdiscount I saw a nice
: Olympia Carina 2000 for about $80.  And I also saw a guy buying a
: typewriter ribbon (but I never saw anybody buying a Mac :-)

In the USA, there are very few typewriters sold any more. In fact, I'm 
not sure how many stores carry them.

If where you live is different than where I live, well, that makes the 
internet the internet, right?


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