Advantages of Typewriters

Drawing of a woman at an old typewriter.

A typist in the Churchill film.


An incomplete list

- no cable or batteries
- satisfying tap-tap-tap-ping!
- no problems (ever) with wifi
- unlikely to be hacked by bad actors
- auto-saves your work
- rare metals not generally reqd.
- no strangers suddenly popping up and asking to “connect”
- smaller than a piano
- more legible than handwriting
- familiar qwerty keyboard
- no subscription fee
- good enough for Hemingway etc