“I have been watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Me-TV, and I must confess: I envy Mary Richards.”

Commercial typists in India

“[A]s someone who remembers Eaton’s Corrasable Bond, the tedium of centering titles, the far greater tedium of retyping whole pages after dropping a line in transcription, and the sheer racket, I feel no nostalgia for the typewriter as an object of use.”

Keyboard history