Tuesday 20 November 2012

Last typewriter - video



From this morning's BBC News 24
20 November 2012

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for the video. Priceless.

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  2. This is a super interesting video. But can you believe it they do not mention the date, or have I overheard something? Someone looking at this video in five years time will have no idea about the exact day. So can we put down Tuesday, Nov. 20th, 2012 AD?

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    1. Georg, I sort of thought I had dated it by captioning as "this morning's" show on a dated blog post. The programme is longer than three hours so this is just a 5 minute extract.

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    2. The Guardian reports that the machine was made on Friday, 12pm (sic!).

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    3. It will be thanks to your post that people can date it in the years to come - provided the internet is still up and running then.

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  3. Thanks for posting this video! I noticed that the sign-language-speaker made the movement you perform when returning a carriage - just from the right to the left - around 0:06, just when "The Typewriter" starts to play.

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  4. The newscaster's typing technique was abysmal; no wonder he was having trouble with keys jamming! ;-) Very enjoyable video, thanks for sharing.

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