California Typewriter Page #5

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neither rain nor prices

prove to be obstacles for

Apple customers today,

who wanted to snap up the new

iPad on the very first day.

- [News Anchor] The rain

held off until 3:00 AM

along San Francisco's

Stockton Street.

One line was for customers

who had preordered

their new iPads online, another

was for those who hadn't.

- [News Anchor]

Throughout the morning,

we've been seeing this line here

at the downtown San Francisco

Apple Store growing.

Right now, it stretches

about half a block down Ellis

and continues to grow.

- [Carmen] Well,

things have been tough,

up and down all along.

We've had loans,

we've had second mortgages.

We've had all our

credit cards maxed out

just to keep the

business rolling.

When you like what you do, you

can almost get paid peanuts

and if you can get by

on peanuts, it's fine.

- This is a Hermes,

made in Switzerland.

Early 60s.

My oldest son found it in a

swap meet somewhere

in California.

And it was in

fairly rough shape,

we had to kind of rebuild it.

I mean, some people who

knew what they were doing

rebuilt it, you know. (chuckles)

It's a beautiful typewriter

and it feels great.

And of all the manual

typewriters I have,

it has the greatest feel.

Just in the keys,

there's a little way they

cup your fingers.

I mean, this is as

good as it gets.

(quiet rattling)

There's the whole

deal right there.

So simple

and complex.

(light piano jazz music)

(soft clicks)

(whirring)

- [Ken] You know, it's

almost like you're a kid

working on your bicycle.

You can see what's

happening with it.

The lever goes up,

the carriage moves,

the letter leaves its mark.

You just can't get that

kind of fascination

out of a piece of

electronic equipment.

- [News Anchor] The

magic moment came at 8:00

when the doors opened.

(applause)

- Unfairly well known

for standing next to

new technology and finding

a way to incorporate it

into what I'm doing.

I was onstage several

years with Steve Jobs,

introducing Apple

software and hardware.

I mean they would come to

my house and show me stuff

and it would be mind-blowing

and I would say,

oh, I can't wait to use this.

For me, I feel like the

next step in technology

is less about what you're using

and more about how

you're using it.

In between my second

and third record,

I went to the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame.

And I saw all these great,

classic seminal songs

that were written on

hotel paper, or you know,

whatever paper was around.

I mean, you can see

right into their ideas.

You can see who scratched

out a lot of ideas and

which ideas came to

people really quickly.

And I thought to myself, wow,

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