Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Why i like typewriters (4) : The sound

Typewriters are a feast for the senses, including hearing of course. The sound you can make as you are pounding away on your Olympia creating your magnificent octopus will be epic. Modern computer keyboards tend not to have much in the way of good sound, what does typing on a Macbook Air sound like? A butterfly fluttering it's wings.

It wasn't always like that of course, old skool computer keyboards like the keyboard on the Volker-Craig VC404 terminal were louder than God. My Mac mini has a loud-ish Tecknet mechanical keyboard which just about does the job. Though if you want to type as loudly as the Lord intended well you know the answer...