When I was in 10th grade I transferred to this little (85 students) Lutheran high school.  My junior year my mother insisted that I take typing because she predicted that by the time I got to the working world people wouldn’t have secretaries but they would have computers.  Fairly prescient for 1982 I’d say.  Anyway, the typewriters at our school were donated manual typewriters.  You know, the kind where you’d have to remember to pull the lever to return to the left side of the paper.  They also required users to strike keys at something like 500 PSI just to get them to work, and erasing mistakes was so difficult that it was definitely better to learn to type accurately before you learned to type fast.  Needless to say I miss my old Royal.

That’s why I’d love to either follow the instructions for making my own Steampunk keyboard (pictured at left) or find someone that will sell me one for less than an arm and a leg.  That thing is way cool in a DYI-retro fashion.

Found via Boing Boing.