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As a speaker, I have to say that a lot of my preference for blackboards over whiteboards (and, to a lesser degree, computers) is aesthetic. I have always sort of rolled my eyes at writers waxing on about the physical feeling of a pen in their hand, or the force required to press the keys of a typewriter as opposed to those on a computer, but perhaps I should take it easy on them, because I have similar feelings about chalk.