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pOn physical objects becoming less and less physically weighty: Nowadays if you drop your phone, it may not survive. The other day I caught a snippet of IGoodFellas/I, the part where Robert Deniro uses a 1970s-era telephone receiver to bludgeon a crony. Try to do that with your iPhone or Droid X and you’d have a confused, unbloodied crony and a cracked touchscreen./p

pKeyboards are less substantial now too, and typing on my laptop doesn’t make the racket an old metal-on-metal typewriter did. But just as we’ve seen A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/retro-tech_phone_receivers_and_an_interesting_film_process_16480.asp” old phone receivers nostalgically connected to cell phones/A, David Schultze’s A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/david_schultzes_philco_pc_concept__15545.asp” Philco PC/A, Mac Classic A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/to_mac_classic_take_one_tablet_and_call_me_in_the_morning_16707.asp” iPad holders/A, and J. Stephenson’s A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/don_drapers_pc_j_stephenson_answers_core77s_challenge_to_design_mid-century_modern_computer_and_seeks_core_reader_feedback_17007.asp” wonderful retro computers/A, here comes Jack Zylkin’s Instructable for a A HREF=”http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Typewriter/” typewriter USB keyboard/A./p

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