The words aren't just flowing out, you don't bang them out. But you can't just say men are more resistant to change. There is an undeniable sense of romance connected with the typewriter. John Allison, an associate editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , admits he has a fetish for them, and owns five. Instead, he goes home after work and watches TV and reads Vanity Fair.
Typewriters never crash.
There's an idea, if editors do, in fact, bleed. He actually had a Green Olympia manual typewriter on his desk at the Post-Gazette for several years. There was once a 15-minute span when the computer system went down and he offered up his manual typewriter. He said he thinks he wrote a headline on it, once, conceding that he ultimately took the machine home because it was loud. At the crux of his lust for the typewriter, though, he says is the idea of disciplined hands and disciplined thinking.