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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by syedkarim on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:03PM (#25039217)
>>Brother is a typewriter and sewing machine company

Do you think they still have any mechanical engineers working on typewriters? Which industry still has a need/requirement for typewriters?

Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by jbay808 on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:40PM (#25040293)
I don't know if they still sell typewriters, but the GP is talking about their heritage, not their current focus.

Right now they make a lean, mean, CNC milling machine!

https://youtu.be/S3jqS5_awO8

Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by protomyth on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:47PM (#25042882)
You need a typewriter for those triplicate forms which some folks still require. Another amazing reason we still have a dot matrix printer and a daisy wheel on a shelf.
Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by bingerman on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:22PM (#25039426)
Take this with a grain of salt but I've heard that some kind of typewriters are still used in some countries for the top secret material.
Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by hyperdimension on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:00PM (#25041424)
I wonder: do they burn or otherwise destroy the ribbon after the fact?

Also I have to confess, I've definitely bought used (tape-based) answering machines/typewriters at yard sales a few times solely to listen to the greeting/messages or typed messages, respectively. Having the device itself is nice, too, of course. :)

It's an interesting slice of the lives of people I'll never know, like picking up discarded shopping lists.

Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by withinboredom on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:00PM (#25039827)
Or when you want typewritten information but don't want to give that person access to a computer (such as a hacker).