Coppola reunited with 'Apocalypse Now' typewriter

Coppola is one of five recipients of the Praemium Imperiale this year,

Nice to see a legitimate award being presented here, as opposed to the usual "best sock wearer" award ceremonies...

I'll bet it was an emotional meeting between typewriter and coppola.

combinibento: I believe you are thinking of the "Best Sockist" award?

Let's hope he doesn't get re-united with the typewriter he used on Godfather Part III

Is it Mac or Windows?

Now, let's see David Cronenberg or William S Burroughs get re-united with the typewriter from Naked Lunch :p

Hopefully some lost footage will be on that film reel!

I thought the article was going to be about him collaborating again with John Milius

@Get Real: It is a manual typewriter. 40 years ago? There was no personal computer yet. No Mac, No Window yet.

Is it Mac or Windows?

In the mid 70's there was neither Macintosh nor even an IBM PC - never mind Windows. Apple Computer, Inc. wasn't even founded until 1976 and their initial products were the Apple models. The Apple 1 didn't even have a keyboard (it was sold as just a motherboard) so it could never be mistaken for a typewriter.

The IBM PC wasn't a reality until 1981. The first Macintosh wasn't a reality until 1984. Windows wasn't a reality until a year later - November 1985 - but that was really just a shell running on top of MS-DOS. Windows as a stand-alone product wasn't a reality until Windows NT in the mid-90's.

So Mr. Coppola wasn't using a computer, but a bona-fide typewriter - and probably a manual one at that.

@Fadamor and toshiko: it's just possible that Get Real was being facetious. Not pedantic, like an "origin of personal computers" post, for instance.

John: I did not write any history of computers we used years ago because this is Coppola's typewriter. Why you mention my name?

"Francis Ford Coppola was reunited Tuesday with the typewriter he used..." What they didn't tell is it was because he recently divorced his vacuum cleaner.

The Type-writer in question was built by Smith-Corona according to a T.Y. Times story

Bartha: Thank you for info. Years ago, people had to take typing lessons in order to work in office.