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GOODBYE DEAR OLD AND PARTNER ...!

In one of these machines learned to write in the industry ....

"My psychoanalyst is my machine

to write ..."

(Ernest Hemingway)

The media brought news and instantly made me go back to the past. Closed the last typewriter factory in the world.

Company executives Godrej and Boyce , located in Bombay, India, decided not to launch more products.

The reason is that last year only managed to put on the market eight hundred units, which is considered unprofitable to continue in the same area.

That determination ends the cycle begun in the late nineteenth century when his invention revolutionized humanity.

The first contact I had with a typewriter was when, while still a child, visiting my father Juan Gálvez Arce in their work.

served as regent, or head Workshop of the newspaper La Industria de Trujillo, where I was surprised to view the "arm" of the newspaper pages with articles that were produced, based on type, letter by letter.

One night very late, out of curiosity, I entered the newsroom and was amazed to watch the machines arranged on each desktop.

I could not escape the temptation to place a sheet of paper. I tried to write my name and pressed the keys timidly with two fingers. The unusual experience paid off.

Another night, the task was to form a sentence and so in succession. A few weeks later, as I liked the lyrics that science was almost in a position to outline an item.

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which he published in the journal "Return" Promotion 1961 National College of San Juan where I studied.

Two years later, when I went to work as a senior editor at The Industry, he was a skilled typist. Born, perhaps very few, the very cradle of the journalists of the dean of the northern press.

was

the time machine alternated Remington and Underwood now occupied a prominent place in museums.

Over time we update using modern and Olivette Olympia i, which were much lighter and comfortable, but not as flashy as the previous.

When introduced computer technology development, were displaced by transforming the traditional text processing system.

Inflexible rules imposing the progress gave way to the natural process of change, leaving behind equipment considered obsolete.

This time it was a typewriter. That old and dear friend of triumphs and sorrows that will become part of history.

Goodbye longed and loyal colleague ...! Live like a pleasant memory of my professional life ... forever ...!