How many typewriters do you own?

[Orrex]

I have, I believe, eight.

I may have a problem.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Hoarder!

J'accuse!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Two. A 1946 Smith-Corona portable and an early '80s vintage electric.

[sakabatou]

3. None

[Rochester]

4. Two, both Smith Coronas, one model 12 manual, one model 70 electric

[trackfan]

5. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's 2. I have an electric Brother

typewriter from about 1990, on which I learned to type (at the age of 30, and thus joining for the first time, albeit, ultimately, temporarily, the middle class job market). I also have a real antique typewriter from the early 1900s.

BTW, I stand by all those commas.

[freshwest]

17. I used to have a Brother typewriter. IDK where it went. Do you have trouble getting parts?

[trackfan]

21. I haven't used it in a while, so I've never had to look for parts.

[KamaAina]

6. Well, none, but

I do have a few 8-track players 'way back in the closet. :P

[freshwest]

7. None, unless you count that Dymo thingie.

[Ptah]

8. One.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrn8FG4-6s

[GoneOffShore]

9. One - Olympia portable

[HopeHoops]

10. Two.

On Edit: No wait, three - I forgot about my grandmother's antique upright that I have packed away (heavy fucker).

[sarge43]

11. I believe there's a portable hiding somewhere and my husband

has an antique, circa 1910.

[hobbit709]

12. I think there might be an old portable in the pile in the garage

[RebelOne]

13. I think I have an old portable stuck

in the back of a closet. After home computers became popular, I said heck with this old piece of junk.

[krispos42]

14. Me, personally? None

However, my parents MIGHT have an electric typewriter stashed away someplace... I think it was a Brother. Black and blue. My mom used to use it for school way back in the 80's and 90's.

Hmmm... she later got a Smith Corona (gray) that had a primitive word-processing feature... you could type out one line on the dot-matrix display, and if it looked good, you pressed "return" and the thing would hammer out the entire line you just typed. It was suppose to make typing less error-prone.

Now that I think of it, it wouldn't surprise me to find that one up in the attic, either.

[Hepburn]

15. One...n/t

[Kaleva]

16. None

[Hangingon]

18. Hermes 3000 and Smith Carona electric

[Kali]

19. one or two

I know there is one back in the office on a stand, and I used to have a portable somewhere but it might have finally disappeared. Might be in the garage. Both manual. too lazy to go look in the office but I remember it is pink (it was my grandmother's)

[LeftyMom]

20. My drug of choice is old sewing machines.

How many? I'd rather not say.

[kwassa]

22. 2, a 1935 Royal, and a dead Smith Corona electric.

The Royal I was given by my dad, it has been his.

[Initech]

23. Um...... zero. I do have four computers though.

[MilesColtrane]

24. I tossed the one I had away a year and a half ago.

[Tikki]

25. Two....

A manual and an electric.....



Tikki

[LaurenG]

26. Freak! No one has eight typewriters

unless of course they're a writer or something. ;)

[nolabear]

27. One so far. But I have a great typewriter story.

Today I participated in the local summer festival. We did a "Poetry Tent" with various incentives to get kids to read and write poetry, As it was last year when we did it for the first time, the thing the kids were MOST fascinated with were the typewriters. We had an old Underwood, a 50's Smith Corona, and mine, a teensy 50s Olympia that types in cursive. For seven hours kids pounded those things. We have photos of grandfathers explaining them to their grandkids as we encouraged them to compose, heard all the typewriter stories from the dinosaur ers. They were just fascinated. We had to explain again and again what you did when you got to the end of a line, how the caps worked, etc.

If I had room I'd rival your eight. They are just cool.