ケヴィン・スミスさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ケヴィン・スミスInstagram)「August 2nd, 1987. A freshly minted 17 year old Emo Kev Smith receives the birthday gift that will shape the rest of his life: the Smith Corona PWP System 14 Personal Word Processor. By age 14, after creating a few SNL-ish sketches for the school talent shows, I was already convinced that I wanted to be a *real* writer (like T.S. Garp). I asked my parents for an @apple computer (like the ones we had in school), but we were lower, lower, lower middle class, so my parents couldn’t afford that kinda of luxury. Instead, I received this odd piece of tech: a #smithcoronatypewriter with a monitor and disc drive that you attached for saving work. Then, when it was time to print out what you wrote, the typewriter typed it out in real time. There was no printer: the electric typewriter itself was the printer. So to spit out a 134 page script, it would take over two hours. I know this because 5 years after this picture was taken, I would write my first film CLERKS on that very machine. So 32 years ago on my 17th birthday, I thought I was getting a ticket to write; but what I actually pulled back the blanket-doubling-as-wrapping-paper to reveal turned out to be my passport to the world. Thanks, Mom and Dad! (Photo snapped by @virginia_in_vienna! Thanks, Sis!) #KevinSmith #smithcorona #1987 #writer」8月29日 2時09分