When I was a youngster, I typed on a 1950s portable typewriter.
I was not a hipster, I was poor. But I loved to write. When I got older our school had a computer lab but typing out computer code seemed pointless. I used a newfangled roller pen and a notepad and when the code was ready, I would type it in and save it to cassette tape.
When I went to college I programmed on a Univac 1100/62 but I still wrote the code in longhand. The instructor in the lab asked me not to type so hard. I was used to a manual typewriter and I was crushing the keyboard
In 1978 Battlestar Galactica debuted on television. It was the dream concept of old people - what survived the takeover by machines when they infect the computer system? The one ship run by an old guy that was too old to be modernized.
In the modern age, spies would be absolutely mystified at the concept of something they could not steal remotely and so typewriters are making a comeback.
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