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We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam

by pncnmnp on 10/6/24, 11:55 AM with 52 comments

  • by jdietrich on 10/7/24, 9:24 AM

    This advertisement was published shortly before Smith-Corona started production of 1903A3 rifles.

    https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-smith-corona-mo...

  • by initramfs on 10/7/24, 7:33 AM

  • by pseingatl on 10/7/24, 4:35 PM

    Orders had to be typed. In 1943 or 1944 a Liberty ship carrying only typewriters went down in the English channel.

  • by kgeist on 10/7/24, 7:07 AM

    >What's fascinating is that Smith-Corona is still in existence today. Wikipedia provides a great overview of how they have managed to adapt through several millennia of innovation

    Did they mean "decades"? (English is not my native language)

  • by ZiiS on 10/7/24, 2:14 PM

    I know the article is new; but given the title is straight from the Ad it would be clearer suffixed (1942).