India’s Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. was the last company in the world to make the once ubiquitous devices, until it stopped production in 2009. Now, it only has 500 left in stock, according to India’s Business Standard.
that makes me quite want one even though typewriters never brought me anything but trouble and swearing and smudged blobs of wite-out.
just yesterday was lolfully reminiscing about you “calling a kitchen implement ‘fucko’.” i can only imagine (with glee) the stream of invective you would produce while operating one of the world’s last 500 typewriters. <3
nothing is as disgraceful as me trying to operate a sewing machine.
new #1 on my list of ‘things estela must do when she next visits seattle’
the quick brown fucko
jumped over the lazy zing