Thanks, my mistake. I’ve corrected it. In my initial draft, I wanted to convey a sense of &quot;enduring innovation&quot; so I used that term symbolically as a placeholder. It went right past me during the final edits.

&gt;What&#x27;s fascinating is that Smith-Corona is still in existence today. Wikipedia provides a great overview of how they have managed to adapt through several millennia of innovationDid they mean &quot;decades&quot;? (English is not my native language)

The popular image of WWII is of the late-war technology. We have forgotten that when the US entered the war it did so with gun tech that was already forty years old, tech that was regarded as oldschool during the previous war.

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We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam