Rainbow Dash considered the object. As far as she could tell, it didn't look back. "Uh, Sunset?"
Dark muttering came from upstairs as Sunset dug through her drawers. "Why is it harder to keep track of socks in this world when there are half as many?" Louder, she said, "What is it, Rainbow?"
Rainbow looked behind her and pointed at the weird object. "What is that?"
Sunset leaned over her second-floor railing, then sighed as she registered the sight before her. "That's a typewriter, Dash."
Dash tilted her head as she took in the mechanism. "Wait, those things were real?"
After a few moments and several false starts, Sunset finally said, "Yes, Dash. Typewriters were in fact real. They continue to be real."
"I always thought the old movies made them up to make stuff look more dramatic." Dash poked a key gingerly. "Why do you even have one of these?"
"It's not like Equestria has PCs. I went with what was familiar, even if human ones have way too many keys. Who needs one for every letter?" Sunset's voice got closer as she went on. By the time Dash looked up from the typewriter, the other girl was by her side. "Plus, it took me a while to put together the funds for a computer. I actually had to do a few homework assignments on this thing." Sunset looked away and held a forearm. "Before I browbeat others into doing them, anyway."
"I know this is usually the part where I tell you you're a lot cooler now, but wouldn't a working typewriter be more expensive?" Dash scratched her head. "I mean, figure you found this thing in an antique store or something."
Sunset gave her a flat look. "It was made in the Eighties."
"Like I said. An antique."
80s stuff was to mass produced and still to available to be valuable antiques
the 80's, the era where nostalgic mass production murdered the mass-media-memories of the 20's-30's.
The industry learned their lesson from that decade of bungled business.
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That would be the joke.
I dunno Sunset, even Angela Landsbury traded in her typewriter for a Macintosh.
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Yeah, that's human Dash to a T. Also, I sympathize with Sunset's sock woes!
The rat a tat of the ibm selectric thank you for making me feel old
8367648 Hey, the Selectric had the 'Oops' button. A vast improvement on the eraser and brush method. Just poke the button and the last letter(s) you typed vanished.
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After this weekend, I can now appreciate what a revolution that must have been.
Hehehe, Ahhh typewriters... such an interesting device.
But then she asked why do you need keys for every letter.
*Has a confuse* So... does the Equestrian Alphabet has the exact same amount as the human one does or...
Eh, anyway, good show
Heh heh, how time flies. Atleast they don't make music like they used to nowadays, why back in my ti-
I was manufactured in the 70's.
My body is solid steel and can crush every human made today into scrap! But I do get awful gas mileage... and spew noxious fumes everywhere... (he's not exaggerating that last part.)
Ouch!
Despite that I don't really remember the 80s at all on account of being 3 when it became the 90s.
Not all those typewriters at Bronycon had a key for every letter, either.
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At Trotcon, I was getting to like the eraser and brush method. I need a new eraser, though. The one with my typewriter is forty years old or so and doesn't work all tyhst well any more.