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  1. Aug 2025
    1. Godrej & Boyce's Milind Dukle tells the Business Standard: "From the early 2000 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. "We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000."

      The World's Last Typewriter Factory Closes in India - Business Insider<br /> by [[Gus Lubin]] for Business Insider accessed on 2025-08-01T09:26:55

      Godrej & Boyce manufactured typewriters to 2009 and were selling off their final machines in 2011.

    1. The final typewriter manufacturers still out there: - Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company (you really don't want one: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/09/the-typewriter-you-probably-dont-want-to-buy/)<br /> - Nakajima still puts out daisy wheel word processors - Swintec still makes machines, but primarily clear bodied ones for prisons

      The last of the serious manual typewriter manufacturers included: - Brother, who stopped manufacturing machines in Wrexham, Wales in 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20413234 - Godrej Typewriter quit manufacturing in 2009 and was finishing out the last of their stock in 2011 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/world-s-last-typewriter-plant-stops-production-1.1090626

      Reply to https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1meum7j/new_typewriters/

  2. Jul 2025
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  4. Dec 2024
    1. The 2023 Rover Typewriter: Worst Machine Ever? by [[Typewriter Chicago]]

      I know Michaels was carrying the We R Memory Keepers typewriter, but hadn't heard about Home Depot carrying them.

      Rover made by Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company still making typewriters (bad quality control, plastic, poor alignment). These are variously rebadged as: - the Rover - the Royal Epoch - We R Memory Keepers (Michaels, Home Depot) - Royal Classic (metal shell) - Maplefield (Target, Walmart, Michaels) - The Oliver Typewriter Company

      Will Davis has determined that they're all based on the Olympia Carina.

  5. Aug 2024
  6. Jul 2024
    1. "The factory cannot only look at the profit index. It must distribute wealth, culture, services, democracy. I think factory for man, not man for factory, right? The divisions between capital and labour, industry and agriculture, production and culture must be overcome. Sometimes, when I work late I see the lights of the workers working double shifts, the clerks, the engineers, and I feel like going to pay my respects." —Adriano Olivetti

      quote likely from Incontro con la Olivetti (Giorgio Ferroni, 1950) via the Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa

      via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1e5gz0i/in_me_non_c%C3%A8_che_futuro/

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