Can anyone still use a manual typewriter?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I tried on the other day. Damn! Did secretaries have to lift weights to type more than 10 words a minute?

 

[Saint Peter]

I am looking for the backspace key with no luck.

 

[koalabear]

Yes, but avoid it !

 

[Lasz]

A typewriter? What is that?

J/k I am not that young.

But still I cant use that thing, without scrweing up. I dont know how they typed so fast and accuratlely back in the day.

I remember in my old keyboarding classes if we scrwed up the program wouldnt let us backspace because we might have to use a tpyewriter.

hahahahaha yeah right that was 1995!

 

[patient1]

I think I can do it as well as I can do this, which is poorly.

I never topped 31 wpm, and because some of my fingers were much stronger than others, there would be random spaces mid-word because the carriage would jump.

The major advantage to a modern keyboard is that my pinky never gets caught between keys.

 

[sunstruck]

My grandmother still has one of those old 40's ones with the black ironlike base. You have to practically put all your weight into punching the keys. It's rediculous.

 

[Calamity Jane]

hahahahaha yeah right that was 1995!

I quit working in 2000, i still occasionally used a typewriter.

I never took a typing class in school, and i've never been even a decent typist. i did find a typing test online the other day, and made it about 53 words/minute. I was way impressed until my mom informed me she used to type 110 wpm without a mistake.

 

[koalabear]

My grandmother still has one of those old 40's ones with the black ironlike base. You have to practically put all your weight into punching the keys. It's rediculous.

Just think of it as building up your fingers for those *fun* finger strokes!

 

[Calamity Jane]

I never topped 31 wpm, and because some of my fingers were much stronger than others, there would be random spaces mid-word because the carriage would jump.

I have to know why.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I can manipulate coins and cards, but I've never been able to type more than 25 wpm (without many typos). I think the problem has nothing to do with my dexterity, and all to do with being in the habit of thinking ten things at a time. If I stop and concentrate ONLY on what I'm typing, I can do it, typo-free. But my mind is always editing at the same time that I'm writing. It's like trying to read two books at once. Plus I'm also thinking about the rest of my day, who I have to call, and, of course, sex.

God bless the Word Processor.

 

[lobito]

My Great-Grandmother used to have one with half red ink, and half black ink. Some of the letters would come out with each color no matter what we did to try to correct it.

I couldn't use a typewriter today if I had to, I don't think.

 

[lisalove]

Absolutely not! I can't even use a rotary dial telephone.

 

[desert spike]

My grandmother still has one of those old 40's ones with the black ironlike base. You have to practically put all your weight into punching the keys. It's rediculous.

I used one like that when I type papers in college. Yes it was hard to push the keys down. Word processers were just coming out back then.

 

[patient1]

I have to know why.

I wish I could say "you'd have to discuss it with my girlfriend at the time ", but that's simply not the case, and it was before I started masturbating myself.

It was probably do to a lack of co-ordination at the time, more than anything. I was a klutz. I wasn't a band kid like you. I wasn't an athelete.
I played chess & football. I stacked hay.

 

[miles]

I remember thinking that carbon paper was high tech.

 

[Guest]

Use one?

I own one.
I like the way it sounds.

Then again, I like records and manually set cameras.

 

[sunstruck]

I can manipulate coins and cards, but I've never been able to type more than 25 wpm (without many typos). I think the problem has nothing to do with my dexterity, and all to do with being in the habit of thinking ten things at a time. If I stop and concentrate ONLY on what I'm typing, I can do it, typo-free. But my mind is always editing at the same time that I'm writing. It's like trying to read two books at once. Plus I'm also thinking about the rest of my day, who I have to call, and, of course, sex.

God bless the Word Processor.

You just described my brain.

I think computers have actually made that type of thought processing worse because you CAN plan your day while writing and reading and looking at porn.

Does anyone ever focus on just one thing at a time anymore?

 

[patient1]

Absolutely not! I can't even use a rotary dial telephone.

Old tech tangent- About 3 years ago I was in a home with a Western- Electric seafoam green princess phone. That's the cat's meow!



It also must have cost them a fortune at $4.95/ month to rent it from Bell all this time.

 

[markb325]

Use one?

I own one.
I like the way it sounds.

Then again, I like records and manually set cameras.

Ok RD we need to talk

Grandmother had one that I use to love to use. With all the printers, type looks better.


Records and manually set cameras I have both.

 

[TWB]

I have a Remington portable, from circa 1924, I believe. It is great, but temperamental and you definitely do get some forearm exercise when you use it.

It is fun.

 

[TWB]

http://w1.131.telia.com/~u13101111/oblique2.jpg

Isn't she a beaut?

 

[bluntforcemama]

I love the noise of a typewriter. *click clack click click*

 

[Carl East]

I had a big electrical type writer not so long ago, and I'm not kidding you when you turned that baby on, it sounded like it was nuclear powered.

To give you a rough idea of how this thing sounded, do you remember the bit in the first ghost busters, when they turn their guns on for the first time in the lift. It sounded just like that.

Carl

 

[riff]

I can use a manual typewriter because I don't type.

 

[Private Vasquez]

I have one, and I know how to use it...but I don't.