Bob Miller didn’t realize he would be one of the last of a breed when he became a service technician for a business-machine company.
“When I first got in this business back in 1983, if you owned an office-machine dealership, you had at least one if not two techs, factory certified, to service your typewriters,” he said.
Among other things, Miller still repairs typewriters.
“The typewriter, when I got in this business, was a very predominant machine that you found in every office that you walked into. Anywhere you went, you found typewriters,” he reminisced.
Computers and word processors took the place of the common typewriter; slowly at first, but almost completely now.