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Fri Jul-08-11 09:35 PM
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How many typewriters do you own? |
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I have, I believe, eight.
I may have a problem.
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Fri Jul-08-11 09:36 PM
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Fri Jul-08-11 09:48 PM
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2. Two. A 1946 Smith-Corona portable and an early '80s vintage electric. |
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Fri Jul-08-11 09:51 PM
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Fri Jul-08-11 10:03 PM
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4. Two, both Smith Coronas, one model 12 manual, one model 70 electric |
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Fri Jul-08-11 10:31 PM
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5. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's 2. I have an electric Brother |
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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.
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Sat Jul-09-11 01:05 PM
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17. I used to have a Brother typewriter. IDK where it went. Do you have trouble getting parts? |
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Sat Jul-09-11 06:55 PM
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21. I haven't used it in a while, so I've never had to look for parts. |
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Fri Jul-08-11 10:32 PM
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I do have a few 8-track players 'way back in the closet. :P
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Fri Jul-08-11 10:34 PM
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7. None, unless you count that Dymo thingie. |
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Fri Jul-08-11 10:36 PM
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9. One - Olympia portable |
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Sat Jul-09-11 07:38 AM
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Edited on Sat Jul-09-11 07:39 AM by HopeHoops
On Edit: No wait, three - I forgot about my grandmother's antique upright that I have packed away (heavy fucker).
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Sat Jul-09-11 07:46 AM
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11. I believe there's a portable hiding somewhere and my husband |
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has an antique, circa 1910.
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Sat Jul-09-11 08:32 AM
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12. I think there might be an old portable in the pile in the garage |
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Sat Jul-09-11 10:43 AM
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13. I think I have an old portable stuck |
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in the back of a closet. After home computers became popular, I said heck with this old piece of junk.
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Sat Jul-09-11 11:09 AM
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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.
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Sat Jul-09-11 01:05 PM
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18. Hermes 3000 and Smith Carona electric |
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Sat Jul-09-11 05:35 PM
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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)
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Sat Jul-09-11 05:49 PM
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20. My drug of choice is old sewing machines. |
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How many? I'd rather not say.
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Sat Jul-09-11 07:21 PM
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22. 2, a 1935 Royal, and a dead Smith Corona electric. |
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The Royal I was given by my dad, it has been his.
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Sat Jul-09-11 07:29 PM
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23. Um...... zero. I do have four computers though. |
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Sat Jul-09-11 07:59 PM
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24. I tossed the one I had away a year and a half ago. |
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Sat Jul-09-11 08:33 PM
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A manual and an electric.....
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Sat Jul-09-11 08:37 PM
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26. Freak! No one has eight typewriters |
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unless of course they're a writer or something. ;)
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Sat Jul-09-11 10:12 PM
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27. One so far. But I have a great typewriter story. |
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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.
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