Sentences with phrase «mechanical typewriters»

Furthermore, while those games were each technologically advanced for their day, they are the mechanical typewriters to today's Mac Book Pro.

The «wild» sound in the paper's newsroom, for example, is quite pleasing — the din of conversation and the chatter of old - school mechanical typewriters really takes the viewer back in time.

In reality, mechanical typewriters are vanishing anyway, and the keyboard of any word processor or computer can be converted — or changed back — merely by pressing buttons.

You might still swear by your four - on - the - floor transmission and your mechanical typewriter, but don't underestimate the power of online dating.

It's like comparing a mechanical typewriter where you forcefully push the keys down to modern laptop that can be operated much easier, faster, in more environments and it will save your work digitally!

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We also have an antique mechanical Underwood typewriter.

Just like the pen or pencil did not disappear with the coming of the typewriter (whether mechanical or electronic) nor with the advent of the personal computer, paper books will still exist years into the future and coexist with their digital equivalent.

Around the same time Andre and Frampton met weekly to discuss their ideas on art, literature, poetry and other topics using the mechanical medium of a typewriter.

In dense visual complexity or in geometrically precise arrangements of words and symbols, Houédard's typewritten sheets and typographic constructions defied both linguistic constraints and mechanical conventions of the typewriter.

According to Butterick, monospaced fonts were invented so that they could meet the mechanical needs of typewriters, not «to win beauty contests» (p. 81).

2 For readers under the age of thirty or so, the «typewriter» was a mechanical device used for creating documents that pre-dated the computer and lacked some of the computer's more annoying characteristics, in particular the computer's facilitation of «cutting and pasting», which is undoubtedly one of the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse and which has cost many trees their lives and many lawyers and judges their eyesight.

In fact, I wrote college papers on an old mechanical Remington typewriter.

Arkansas, United States About Blog I love mechanical things and have tinkered with manual and electric typewriters since my teens.