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And this, kids, is how we used to type our papers in college
By adamg on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 12:43pm
Arturo Gossage took in Figment Boston on the Greenway yesterday.
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No keys for 0, 1, or exclamation point
Some of you will know what we had to do instead.
You mean "l" backspace period?
That's something I would never have recalled without prompting.
Single-quote, backspace, period
comes out much better.
Hope.....
you have a big enough ribbon for that thing.
I don't miss typerwriters
There are a number of things that have become obsolete in my lifetime that I sometimes miss. Once in a while I even have a nostalgic thought for phone booths, believe it or not. But typewriters are one thing I do not miss. One little mistake and you were screwed. I know someone will say "that's what whiteout was for", but did you ever see a typed paper full of white out and erasures? Not nice looking, and certainly not professional looking. And that clatter! Good riddance.
Clatter
Enough people apparently do miss the sound of typewriter keys that there is, in fact a popular app for that, created by Tom Hanks, of all people.
Hopefully it sounds better
than the fake "clatter" sound on the new train boards at North and South Stations.
I agree, but they did not suck as much as dot matrix printers
.
Boston's typewriter orchestra
Boston's typewriter orchestra needs to have a concert in front of that!
Ah, yes...
Ah, yes...
Robinson Plaza, in front of the Sprang Building.
The only final exam I ever failed
was Personal Typing, in high school. By the time I was out of college I got pretty good at banging out the papers on that manual SOB, but I too never look back with anything but loathing to all that clatter.
Piano playing suffers
from the loss of finger strength and dexterity youth once learned and practiced with manual typewriters.
Thanks for the pic!
We've had a great time building that typewriter this summer in a driveway up in Reading. Next stop, burning man!
If anyone wants more info we're on facebook and at www.blunderwoodportable.com
Yup,
learned how to type on those things. Remembering begin so excited to finally move on to the electrics :)