Yoohoo! Oh Wesley and Heidi...

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And whomever digs this sort of thing:

http://www.usbtypewriter.com/

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Very cool!

There's even a DIY kit so you could turn one of your machines into it. :) The only thing I don't like is that the font should be set to a typewriter font, which does work on my iPad:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbieohi/4537650503/

:hi:

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4. You know who has an awsome typewriter font?

Mwahahahaha!

[Call Me Wesley]

5. Adobe rocks!

:rofl: And yes, I'm posting from my iMac. ;)

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6. Haha

MACs are fine. If I hadn't killed my Ebay iMac within 12 hours of unboxing it, I never would have discovered Linux!

However, I'm posting from my Thinkpad running XP. And, well, I love FLASH and will nevar evar stop using it to make graphics.

It's all good. :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. I grew up with and learned to type on an old manual typewriter...

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...that looked much like the one below.
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I can type about 50-60 wpm, but during one temp agency test, the HR person
said she had never seen anyone else with an absolutely mistake-free test.
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Not QUITE that accurate now, but I've always wished for a company that would
PAY for that level of accuracy rather than just for a lot of words in a short
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I write left-handed and I'm not good with cursive, so I print everything and
I'm painstakingly S-L-O-W... not to mention more susceptible to writer's cramp
than most, so typing was amazing to and for me.
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THEN... going from manual typewriter to electric was a jump like going from pen
to typewriter. THEN... going from electric typewriter to word processor was like
the same kind of quantum leap.
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But your fingers got a WORKOUT on those old manual typewriters. Much pressure was
required to depress those keys.
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[Call Me Wesley]

3. Did you ever see our actual typewriter display?

There are some missing, but from left to right: Pink Royal Quiet Deluxe, Princess 200, olivetti lettera 32, olivetti valentine, Underwood (1928.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx5dKMlFgsQ

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Very cool!!

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I'm pretty sure my typewriter was an Underwood and, for some reason, I always
thought of it as from the 1920's or 30's -- they were indestructible TANKS!!!
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[Call Me Wesley]

8. The one I have works just fine.

They all work and had some minor mechanical repairs (when needed) and are all equipped with fresh ribbons. Yes, they're being used. :)

And here's a design study turning an olivetti valentine into a laptop: http://www.poetichome.com/2009/12/04/if-the-olivetti-valentine-typewriter-was-a-laptop/
http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/the-valentine-notebook-097302

[Bunny]

12. HAHAHAHAHA! I swear to god, that never gets old!

:rofl: :hi: CMW!

[Call Me Wesley]

13. Unless you have to listen to it 24/7

and have a disco light show behind your back. ;)

Bunny! :hi:

[marzipanni]

9. Those might become popular with authors and journalists!

Herb Caen, who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, was known for his loyalty to his Royal.


My husband used a manual typewriter in the early 70s when he was in the Army and, never having used an electric typewriter, still tends to bang on the computer keys. :o

Some famous writers and their typewriters-
http://www.fosterkamer.com/post/725759353/famous-writers-and-their-typewriters


The Typewriter Song, played by the Boston Pops Orchestra-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxAR8_0P02Q

edited to change mp3 link to the same music on YouTube, with video of birds eating corn-on-the-cob - :)

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Wow! Great links!

Leonard Cohen: lettera 32. :woohoo:

Thanks for sharing!

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Perhaps my favorite book ever is Tom Robbins "Still Life with Woodpecker"...

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...a love story between an outlaw and a princess.
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One of the main and oft-recurring characters is the typewriter he
was using to write the novel with.
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If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

This is the all-new Remington SL3, the machine that answers the question,
"Which is harder, trying to read The Brothers Karamazov while listening
to Stevie Wonder records or hunting for Easter eggs on a typewriter
keyboard?" This is the cherry on top of the cowgirl. The burger served
by the genius waitress. The Empress card.


I sense that the novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3--although it
writes much faster than I can spell. And no matter that my typing finger
was pinched last week by a giant land crab. This baby speaks electric
Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half
if you just look at it hard.


"What are you looking for in a typewriter?" the salesman asked.


"Something more than words, " I replied. "Crystals. I want to send my
reader armloads of crystals, some of which are the colors of orchids and
peonies, some of which pick up radio signals from a secret city that is half
Paris and half Coney Island."


He recommended the Remington SL3.
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Much MUCH more about his Remington interspersed all through the book.
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I LOVE Tom Robbins.
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