why did Mark twain think that the typewriter had several virtues
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There’s something about the typewriter. I’ve got about 2,000 images posted to date on Pinterest and the pin that gets the most attention of late is a shot of an old manual typewriter (even ahead of a photo of onion rings).
People just like the typewriter. Some even hook up their computer to it and use it as an old-fashioned (but comfortable) keyboard. The kit to make the hook-up costs $80 and is available online.
The typewriter has history. Mark Twain used one. Supposedly the first author to use the new-fangled technology, he wrote the following in a letter to his brother in 1875: “I am trying to get the hang of the new fangled writing machine, but am not making a shining success of it…The machine has several virtues…It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don’t muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.” (Source: fact sheet from IBM, 1977)
While technology has advanced over the years, the typewriter’s influence remains in place. The so-called QWERTY arrangement of letters on the keyboard of your smartphone or tablet is the same arrangement of letters that adorned the typewriter perfected by Christopher Latham Sholes back in 1873 when the Milwaukee printer developed his machine. That configuration remains with us to this day but perhaps not for long.
The Wall Street Journal recently noted that smart device keyboards of the future will likely be modified to encourage fast entries. One, developed by Snapkeys, an Israeli-based startup, will use four keys, each representing three commonly-used letters. Keyboards will be predictive, that is, anticipating words to be typed. All for the sake of speed.
But for now the QWERTY system hangs in there — and people still want pictures of old typewriters.
Answer:
To make it comfortable for the writer
Explanation:
As the author is able to use the typing code in the type