XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-29 05:43, John Levine wrote:   
   > According to c186282  :   
   >>> Even the hippie generation or whatever you want to call what followed the   
   >>> Beats wasn't very literary.   
   >>   
   >>    Hmm ... how long since 'writers' actually WROTE - ink   
   >>    on paper ? Quill pens ?   
   >>   
   >>    Since the 1930s they 'wrote' mostly on typewriters.   
   >   
   > Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" was written on a typewriter in   
   > 1883. It's not clear if he typed it himself or dictated it to a   
   > secretary.   
      
   I have a typewriter from late 1800 or early 1900. A Hammond. Fast typing   
   is not possible.   
      
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