Saturday, March 17, 2012

Denver TV news typewriter story

A Denver TV news show has devoted five precious minutes to the typewriter revival. They gush over a cursive Smith-Corona and show a local repairman.

Story here.

7 comments:

  1. The three moderators seem a bit crazy... I think we've seen better coverage, but it's always nice...

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  2. I agree with Florian, the hosts are a bit flakey. Seems like they are very inexperienced in anything but reading the teleprompter, but the good thing is the STORY -- 5 minutes and a good interview with the local typewriter repairman. Good story even if the anchors are a bit silly.

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  3. It's just really exciting to see one typewriter feature after another.

    I'm also happy that it opened with an Olivetti Studio 45. ( :

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  4. Good story, in spite of the vacuous, almost clueless vibe of these news folks.

    This increase in typewriter publicity reminds me of how a tiny town in southeastern Arizona, where I owned a house a decade ago, got DISCOVERED after a feature article about the town appeared in Sunset magazine. The town was over-run with new people, and the fun, special atmosphere disappeared as home prices skyrocketed.

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  5. Good story and great typewriters. It's good to know that ypewriters are having more media coverage.

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  6. Very nice. It's good to see we are no longer considered as strange as before. Must be like having an old car that suddenly becomes a collectible classic.

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  7. Very flaky presenters. What was that nice old machine the repairman was tapping on?

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