Turns out he already had an identical typewriter sitting at the other end of the table.
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He wrote up contracts with a portable typewriter on the hood of a rental car.
One of his first successes: IBM's Model B electric typewriter (a precursor to the Selectric).
Spinrad, who wrote his script on a typewriter, never kept a version for himself.
So why, why, why did I have to learn to type on a typewriter?
An old-style Royal typewriter sat at the precise center of a long, heavy antique table.
As we approach the final end of the typewriter, Alan Jacobs finds himself rather lacking in nostalgia.
The dupes were light green and flimsy, the letters from that Gatling-gun typewriter of his black and distinct.
Thinking this was hugely inefficient, I appropriated an IBM Selectric typewriter that was destined for the trash heap.
And I say that even though, like Greg, I have a typewriter I was and am smitten with.
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When Rafik brought afternoon tea into the living room, K.K. could hear the typewriter clacking in the background.
She's trying the cell my typewriter, you know, to finance her next home.
He used a manual typewriter because he felt he could work faster with that than with the electric version.
Back then, it was the telephone, high-speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure and the electric-telegraphic typewriter.
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Edward Bryan, a worker at the factory since 1989, made the last typewriter.
He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime, most of the manuscripts banged out on a 1908 manual typewriter.
Banging away at a typewriter, he ignores the ringing phone next to him, in the age-old tradition of geniuses at work.
Another journalist was recently sentenced to a year's labour for not denouncing a dissident who had asked to borrow his typewriter.
As a college reporter and editor during the Watergate years, I had to be pried away from my typewriter and newsroom colleagues.
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Almost all stories ran through his typewriter and, years later, his computer.
So she covered the typewriter with a raincoat and pushed it aside.
Julian was a thin man of sixty-three, balding, a typewriter repairman who worked out of his spare bedroom and kept to himself.
Technology put buggy makers and typewriter companies out of business and explains why Apple is the most valuable company on the planet.
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New technologies, such as the typewriter, allowed many women to support themselves financially for the first time, and many flocked to the cities.
Hearing the door close and the tap-tap-tap of the typewriter, I knew she would not come out before it was time for a cocktail.
Mr. Harvey would walk out of the studio after each broadcast, then go back into his office and sit down next to that typewriter.
Books extended outward from both sides of the typewriter for a couple of feet in both directions, all of them written by the occupant.
With a nifty solder-gun and his small engraving lathe he could make an American typewriter speak 145 different tongues, from Russian to Homeric Greek.
He must have had a huge postbag but on each occasion I received a helpful and encouraging reply, typed on his famous old typewriter.
Marshall said Lewis was a humble man who loved vegetable gardening, opera and musicals, and wrote on a manual typewriter until the day he died.
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