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In case you've neglected to check your recent typewriter news feeds, these items are worth a read:
At least this dismantler of typewriters is getting creative: check out the Corona Matic Waffle Maker if you've always dreamed of eating keyboard-shaped breakfast items. And who hasn't?
I never tire of articles about old typewriter repair shops like Carolina Typewriters still holding up in these thumb-typing times.
Update: And another about Frykman Technologies in Illinois.
Book, Please
3 hours ago
7 comments:
Seems like a pretty good use for an electric typer, even if it is just pretend.
My old Ti-99/4a computer used to get so hot that you probably could cook waffles on it.
Mike, YOU had a TI-99/4A? I learned to program in BASIC on one of those. I still have it. Have all the games, speech synthesizer, the whole package. Love that old thing.
What troubles me about the waffle maker is that it produces a waffle that's definitely in the shape of a PC keyboard, not a typewriter keyboard. (On second thought, it could be representative of the electric typewriter from which it's made, but why ruin a good rant with logic?)
Still have my TI as well, along with all my old BASIC tapes. For good or bad, it's what started me on my career way back at the tender age of 12.
Here's the original
artist's page on the project. It took me a moment, but look closely at the body of the waffle maker -- notice a familiar shape about the sides? (And yes, he got the keys all wrong. Ah well.)
Ah, I see it now. I'm glad I looked further, because that Typewriter Urn is just the thing to complete my mortuary planning.
It's never too early to think about the future...
Funniest passage of the Frykman article:
'He finds working on the relatively newer electronic models, which are loaded with computer circuit boards and wiring, easier than the older models and their hundreds of individual parts.
'"If someone knows how to fix these," Velez said while showing off the intricate guts of a practically ancient, 1970s-era IMB [sic] Selectric II, "I bow to them."'
I had waffles this weekend in honor of this machine.
They were not shaped like typewriters.
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