At last, there is a way to connect keyboard-less digital devices to typewriters!
See this Poets & Writers article at http://www.pw.org/content/typewriters_in_the_21st_century
Excerpt:
The USB Typewriter, created by Jack Zylkin, is one of the products that
pay homage to that lionized, endangered, and, for some, still preferable
writing machine. The USB Typewriter is a kit of electronica that, when
installed on a typewriter, sends whatever is typed on the machine to an
attached digital device—a computer, tablet, or smartphone—where it is
stored as electronic, and thus editable and uploadable, text. The
converted typewriter still works on its own, in the traditional fashion,
with or without a device attached. Zylkin began tinkering with his own
typewriter in 2009, simply out of love for the machine and a wish to
rescue it from obsolescence; it wasn’t until he officially introduced
his creation to the public, in 2010, that he fully realized what it
could mean for writers. “For me, it’s all about the magic of typewriters
and how wonderful they are—I just like working on them,” Zylkin says.
“But they represent a whole way of writing that is being forgotten.
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