Typewriters make comeback during pandemic 

Don't stop. 👌🏻

Get another one.

The round spool ribbons are still made and can be found on e-bay. They look different than the original and fit most manual typewriters (if they don't I unwind to an original spool) I stay away from those requiring cartridge ribbons as they haven't been made since the 1990s. Finding a repair person nearby is the tough part (especially if it's an electric)

Computers and phones will be useless if the grid goes down but low tech typewriters will still work, so they are not obsolete.

@@theia1653 Thank you. I was going to mention that. I believe that will eventually happen. Things are only obsolete if someone quits using them but not everyone has.

Wow that's cool !!

you gain something you lose something.

Distractions? That's a load of crap. Computers are faster, more reliable, offer endless editing options, provide the ability to save, print, and distribute the file, there is no comparison. I learned how to type on an IBM Selectric in 1983, I was 15 years old. I did this so that I could actually type properly on my computer. The typewriter I learned to type on was the only one I ever typed on. It served it's purpose and I've never had the slightest desire to to type on anything other than a computer every since. I can type upwards of 80 wpm, no paper to worry about until I'm read to print, and when I print, the copy has been proof read and edited to perfection. I'm not a programmer, but yeah...a typewriter would not work for that purpose...no. A typewriter will also not work for watching RU-vid videos and then commenting on them afterwards. You have to be a special kind of person to want to give up a computer for a typewriter. Of course, I'm sure computers are distractions to some...but those people have problems that are not related to the hardware. Medication helps them, sometimes.

To each his own. Of the thousands of pages of documents I have generated in the past 30 years about 80 percent have been on a computer. Of the hundreds of pages of documents I have generated in the past six months about 80 percent have been on a typewriter, because I like it better. For me the ideas seem to flow better with the typewriter, but the editing and distribution is done on my computer. I feel pretty lucky that I can have the best of both worlds.

@@HangTimeDeluxe I am 11 years old, I am a typewriter, telephone, calculator, and camera user. According to my experience with computers, my computer has horrible word processing, so are the computers in my school. I should say a computer is 66% good with word processing. A typewriter may have 0% of word processing, but for people who are well with grammar (like me) and have great spelling (like me) and people who do not need to rely on the delete button on the computer (like me) can use the typewriter. Now I understand, the computer is advance, the smartphone made the telephone obsolete, but anything that is good, there always has to be something bad behind. I learned that from my experience...

By the way, my computer is advance, my computer has 66% of good word processing. In school, I use a mac book, and at home, I use DELL.

And rotary phones

Goodwill gets them every now and then.

You can easily find them on eBay for quite cheap.

@@DatNguyen-et1mi Thank you Dat, I will check there.

Etsy

You can easily find them on eBay for quite cheap.

I purchase my ribbon on Etsy

Antique stores.

Craigslist has plenty of them.

14, count me in.

Me too 🤣

I actually gave away my last typewriter several years ago. It is on display our son's home. One day in the spring of 2021 I saw two typewriters at a yard sale. One worked and the other didn't. I bought them both. Since them I have bought eight others, three non-working ones. I got on the Phoenix Typewriter RU-vid channel and followed his tutorial and fixed one of them. I use it almost daily, for journaling and short stories. I'm glad to be part of the trend because it works for me.

I read a story about a man claiming to type biblically, "seek and ye shall find."

Aeronautics equipment like gauges.