Turn An Old Typewriter Into An Awesome Mechanical Mac Keyboard

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Miss the meaty mechanical kerchunk of slapping down your old Macintosh Plus Keyboard? Feel as if the Apple Wireless Keyboard’s soft and barely yielding keys barely convey the shaking gravity of your prose? Instructables has you covered, with an excellent guide on how to convert an old typewriter into a USB keyboard capable of being used with any Mac, bringing back to your computer the mighty hammering of the Underwoods of old.

Just don’t expect the project to be easy: according to Instructables contributor Jack Zylkin, the modification will take anywhere between five to ten hours to complete.

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