The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

> 
>    The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15],
>    Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011

Uh Oh,

I was in Ghana last year and there was a whole raft of people sitting
outside the post office with manual typewriters typing up government
forms in triplicate....with "carbon paper"....

The whole Ghanian form of government is in danger of collapse.  First it
is the typewriter companies that go...then the ribbon companies, then
the carbon paper companies.....

Hundreds of people will be thrown out of work.

md