The Search for MingKwai, the Chinese Typewriter of Legend | How a history professor went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines, hoping to save them before they faded into oblivion (www.nytimes.com)
from silence7@slrpnk.net to world@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 17:01
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1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip on 22 Jul 18:11 next collapse

Fascinating read. Did not know this thing existed, and invented by the famous Lin Yu-tang too.

silence7@slrpnk.net on 22 Jul 19:04 collapse

You are clearly not a Chinese typewriter historian

1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip on 22 Jul 19:30 collapse

You got me :-)

b_tr3e@feddit.org on 23 Jul 01:22 collapse

Isn’t there a (unreleased at his lifetime) P.K. Dick story with a similar plot? Not Chinese machines but out of production typewriters, IIRC?