I had no idea! Lost in my world of computers, software, and BSODs, I didn't realize that people were not only still using typewriters, but buying them! As BBC reported last week, Japanese multinational Brother sold 12,000 electronic typewriters in the UK last year. Now that's not nearly as many that bought PCs, laptops and PerfectDisk, but it's a lot more than zero. You can read the article, Why typewriters beat computers," here.
As The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth notes in the article, "I have never had an accident where I have pressed a button and accidentally sent seven chapters into cyberspace, never to be seen again. And have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter? It is very secure."
The BBC article also notes that typewriter users are "unruffled by the threat of disk defragmentation errors," although, as one astute commenter from London points out, "not to be pedantic, but there is no such thing as disk defragmentation errors" (well, actually there can be if the disk defragmentation program has a bug).
Anyway, I'm just glad to see disk defragmentation getting some notice from BBC.
Even if PerfectDisk can't fix any typewriter problems.
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