A question some people ask me, especially my spouse, is why do i like typewriters? Well there are a number of reasons that i do and i shall list them in this new series.
The first reason is the fact that typewriters are very physical machines, unlike computers which are largely esoteric (well being a computing graduate and having had a 27 year plus career in IT i do know what happens inside the box but it isn't very visible!)
However, with a typewriter everything is straight forward and understandable. You press a key, the lever and typekey it is connected to then impacts a piece of paper via the ribbon and prints a character. Who knows what goes on inside Microsoft Word? Literally no one.
