"What are moon-letters?" asked the hobbit full of excitement. He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also loved runes and letters, and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery.
Yes. Not often.
We have a nice electronic one, but it hasn't been fired up in years. Thanks for the prompt :-)
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No. Though it would be helpful to stay on task when writing those essays....
Can't remember the last time I saw my typewriter. I think it was right after I graduated from graduate school. By the time I was inclined to do any typing again, I had a Windows 3.0 machine with a word processing program I liked a lot, but can't remember the name of.
My office has a typewriter from the 70's that sits in the file room. I was told that it is used for those little labels that we use for our folders. Otherwise, we use computers for everything else.
Typewriters are cool, unfortunately they have gone the way of most things as technology evolves.
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I have a 30-year old Canon electric that I use sometimes - - mostly to type addresses on envelopes when I need to send a letter by Certified Mail. I have actually used it for that purpose twice in the past two weeks.
There is probably an old 40's typewriter at my parents house. We had an electric typewriter, Olivetti IIRC. I have no idea where that one is now.
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I've got an electric typewriter sitting in my basement somewhere.
I think I'll send it off to the local thrift shop and tell them that they ought to put a sign on it that says: "Printing as you write!".
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I haven't, personally. I know we have a few lying around at the office--mostly in case we need to add information to certain documents.
I remember that the last time I used a typewriter, it gave me a headache--it was the noise I didn't like. (I also wasn't so wild about the fact that while I type about 90-100 wpm on a computer keyboard, I couldn't get the same speed out of that typewriter I used.) I find it odd that I got that headache, though...because one of my favorite things, when I was really little, was a toy typewriter. :P
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I like the sound of my '59 Olympia SM-4. It only comes out a few days a month, unlike fountain pens which are always being used but they lack that sound.
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Stan Laurel liked it too.
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I discovered a love of typewriters some time ago when I resurrected a Smith Corona Silent Super which has been in my basement for 23 years. I have a Smith Corona #4 (I think) that I found at low cost and plan to restore this summer.
I'd rather handwrite. But the joy of a typewriter is that you can type, use OCR, and get it onto your computer. There is something to be said for happily typing away without any distractions. And the keyboards feel good on these manual typewriters.
Edited to add:
And there is this guy who uses a typewriter to create art despite his disability!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svzPm8lT36o
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Thanks for that. I see he uses an extra wide platen, which explains how he was able rotate a sheet of paper to apply his typing in various directions on the page,
Writing for a living (in a cabin with no electricity) I used an old Adler, a beast that was surplus from the local school district.
Since creative frenzy drove me to type too fast and make a lot of mistakes, I usually had to retype everything twice or thrice. Then, when I got changes from an editor, I either had to retype once or twice again or resort to cut-and-paste, then drive to town and photocopy the result.
When I had electricity, got my first Mac, and could make changes without the whole grind, I was really happy.
Over the years, that's probably saved around a million sheets of paper.
Yazeh (June 30th, 2022)
"Jon Szanto doesn't always use a typewriter, but when he does it is usually in front of a lot of people." To pull out an oldie but goodie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axtAwQG1q1w
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