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In <cirby-1108951854450001@pm1-28.magicnet.net> cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:

>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.  

I wouldn't call a typewriter with an one-line buffer "word processor".
But maybe we use different definitions for that term.  And I did use
such a typewriter without any kind of training.  So do all the people
playing with the demo typewriters in the shops.

>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.  

A typewriter which is not manual is usually called "printer".  Again, we
seem to have terminology problems.
>
>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.

Now, go to any third world country you like and make a similar study.
Or do you think that the US sales can be extrapolated everywhere?

Dan
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