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# The death of the typewriter
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-death-of-the-typewriter/
- Published: 2011-04-27T13:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:55:13.000Z
- Description: The last typewriter factory, in Mumbai, India, closed this week. So ends the loveliest and loudest sound of button pushing. “We are not getting many orders now,” Milind Dukle, Godrej and Boyce’s general manager, told the paper. “From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the man
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The last typewriter factory, in Mumbai, India, closed this week. So ends the loveliest and loudest sound of button pushing.

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> “We are not getting many orders now,” Milind Dukle, Godrej and Boyce’s general manager, told the paper. “From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. ‘Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. But this might be the last chance for typewriter lovers. Now, our primary market is among the defence agencies, courts and government offices.”

Read more [here](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/last-typewriter-factory-in-the-world-shuts-its-doors/237838/?ref=killscreen.com).