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Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> You missed the point (it isn't the first time :-)  I didn't doubt
> that Smith-Corona went out of business, but the fact that it was "the
> last of them".  Go back and check.

He's right- there are a few typewriter manufacturers still in business. 
But right now, the biggest in the world is Brother, and they build more
computer printers than typewriters.  They don't make those old manual
machines any more.  The machines they *do* make are "word processors"
instead of plain old electric typewriters, and they're not something an
untrained user could manage any more.  

Smith-Corona was, however, the last of the large manufactureres that was
making manual typewriters.  There are a few manual typewriter companies in
some countries, but the number is dwindling every month.  

I went into Sears and Office Max yesterday and asked the salesmen about
computer versus typewriter sales, and between the two stores, they had
sold *two* typewriters in the last week.  Versus a couple of Macs a *day*
in each store.

I'm sure there will always be a market for manual typewriters, though. 
For example, I know a guy who still makes buggy whips...

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