Sad day for all 5 of you that still use a typewriter. LOL. Godrej and Boyce, the last open typewriter factory in the world…is closing its plant in Mumbai, India. Only a couple hundred typewriters are even left in the world! Hit the jump for details on the closing of the Mumbai factory.

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(HP) – According to the Daily Mail, “Although typewriters became obsolete years ago in the west, they were still common in India – until recently. Demand for the machines has sunk in the last ten years as consumers switch to computers.” The devices had been a status symbol in India, notes the Business Standard.

Typewriter sales have plummeted in the past several years: the company sold less than 800 machines in 2010, down from the 50,000 it produced every year in the 1990s.

“From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us,” general manager Millind Dukle told the Business Standard. “We are not getting many orders now. But this might be the last chance for typewriter lovers. Now, our primary market is among the defence agencies, courts and government offices.”

Another one of Godrej and Boyce’s typewriter plants in Shirwal was shut down recently and is now used as a refrigerator manufacturing unit.