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What's a Typewriter, Mommy?

They won't do your taxes, and you can't play bridge with them. Replaced by / personal computers, typewriters are going the way of vinyl records. In a move that signaled the end may be near for a dying industry, Smith Corona announced it would shut down its last U.S. factory, in Cortland, N.Y., costing 875 jobs. The factory's operations are moving to Mexico, where they still make Volkswagen Beetles.

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