typewriter
A typewriter is a small machine which uses a system of levers and ink ribbon to produce type of printing-press quality on a smaller scale. The machine eliminated the need for people to write neatly, and was popular in offices and amongst secretarial firms from its invention in the late C19th to sometime around the mid-1980s, when home computers finally became a viable option, and the development of the dot-matrix printer eliminated the need for people to type neatly by creating type of smudgy printer quality on a grand scale.In the late 1970s, someone invented an electric typewriter, which was like the traditional machine, but with powered keys that forced the levers (each of which had an appropriate letter on the end) to hit the ribbon, removing most of the effort from the activity. One such electric typewriter was obtained by JTA who used it to write large quantities of rubbish he never intended to save on a computer, and which he was later forced to copy up anyway.
Example of things produced by typewriter, therefore, are Surviving Bus Journeys - For Fun!, some early drafts of A Tour Throughout the Whole Island of JTA’s World and a few old and badly-written bits of pornography, which a much younger JTA then sold to buy crisps and copies of the Beano.