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The story of Neal Stephenson’s typewriter

Andrew Macrae
3 min readJun 6, 2021

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So we all know the story of William Gibson’s typewriter, right?

The legend of how he wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter, before he’d even used a personal computer?

The concept of cyberspace was invented on a Hermes 2000.

Hermes 3000 — the next model up from the 2000. Source: Wikicommons.

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Andrew Macrae

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