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My parents were typing instructors. In the ’70s, computers were coming—and everyone in their field feared losing their jobs. My parents spent **half a year’s income** on a TRS-80 and its peripherals. They didn’t protect their typewriters from the future. **They bought the future.**

Curious which argument actually did it for them, the environmental cost critiques and the quality/output critiques usually come from different camps and rarely land together in one piece.