Found a printout of one of my favourite past articles, Carriage Return, a feature on a typewriter repairman in Carlton (an inner Melbourne suburb) that I wrote for @glennf and The Magazine. I've also got the first draft, appropriately written on a typewriter my now-wife bought for me from him.
Fun fact: Tom's *still* at it, a decade later (now around 79 years old, I think), and he's become world renowned for his work — he's even traded letters with famous typewriter enthusiast Tom Hanks.
Fun fact: Tom's *still* at it, a decade later (now around 79 years old, I think), and he's become world renowned for his work — he's even traded letters with famous typewriter enthusiast Tom Hanks.
The article's still online, too! Here's a link, in case anyone wants to read it: https://the-magazine.org/20/carriage-return/index.html
@MossRC I was just referencing your article when I wrote an update for The Magazine: The Book promoting Shift Happens, the book I've edited by Marcin Wichary that I hope you've seen over at Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens
@glennf I backed it last week! Looks like it'll be a very cool book, and I knew it'd be good the moment I saw you were editing it.
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