As well as the physical presence and appeals to the touch, a typewriter can win over another of your senses too, the sense of smell. Typewriters can smell amazing, well thats if you think the smell of ink and lubricant oil mixed with decades of dust smells amazing. I do of course, but then again i also like the smell of garlic and Deep Heat. My Macbook doesn't really smell of anything at all but to be honest that is a good thing.
Not all typewriters smell good though, i've never found the smell of the Erika type that appealing, they must use a different kind of lubricant in East Germany.
