> I loved the feel of the later IBM Selectrics (and I'm just old enough to have taken typing on them in high school instead of computers)...
Yeah! Red (and perhaps blue) thick hard-ass plastic bombers! They were like power steering: you could feel the hammer move and strike when you pressed the keyboard key.
> but I don't find anything else> about the typewriter experience particularly compelling. Correction tape vs. the delete key is no contest.
Nope. And trying to find the little spaces left in the tape, cos tape was scarce and of course for the school expensive.
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