William Gibson: The Neurotyper

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The Neurotyper

William Gibson talks about the now-famous typewriter on which he wrote Neuromancer, something that shouldn’t be taken as a “lotek eccentricity” as he puts it —

…in 1981 I didn’t know anyone who wrote on a computer. All the hotshit professionals had the IBM Selectric, which turned out to be the endpoint of typewriter evolution. Stephen King may have already had his Wang, which was the first I heard of anyone writing fiction on a new-fangled “word processor”. Me, I was writing on a Hermes 2000.

“The Neurotyper”