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August 25, 2005, 2:20 pm
Hip 20-somethings have already learned to fetishize vinyl records and vintage clothing. Now, it appears, typewriters are up next in the everything-old-is-new-again sweepstakes. Office-supply merchants say more and more of their business is coming from recent college graduates, who find the devices charmingly anachronistic.
Why switch from Powerbook to Underwood? "The computer and printer are too much of an intermediary between me and my writings," says one typewriter enthusiast. (Knight Ridder)
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