Erstellt am: 3. 3. 2011 - 12:15 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Typewriters?
I never learned to type. As a matter of fact, other than some screwed up late night forays into freeform poetry, I don't think I have ever used a typewrtier to put words on paper.
But I always liked having one aroud. Those huge black mechanical typewriters seemed like the ultimate symbol of the literary life. I used to look at the one I had inhereited from some ex-roommate and imagine myelf as William Burroughs typing through the remnants of a late night hallucination.
And then I would sit down, start hacking away, and give up a few minutes later when I realized I just couldn't live without copy and paste. The freedom of being able to restructure my writing on the fly without having to actually go back and retype everything was just too tasty.
But now you can have the best of both worlds. The hefty chunka-chunk of a remington portable and the free form ease of word processing.
Hacking a mechanical typewriter is one of those ideas a lot of people have had, a few have actually done, and one person has refined into something really cool. You can find out how, here.