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No keys for 0, 1, or exclamation point
By Ron Newman
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 12:44pm
Some of you will know what we had to do instead.
You mean "l" backspace period?
By FenRes
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 3:38pm
That's something I would never have recalled without prompting.
Single-quote, backspace, period
By Ron Newman
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 3:56pm
comes out much better.
Hope.....
By dpalomares
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 12:59pm
you have a big enough ribbon for that thing.
I don't miss typerwriters
By anon
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 1:25pm
There are a number of things that have become obsolete in my lifetime that I sometimes miss. Once in a while I even have a nostalgic thought for phone booths, believe it or not. But typewriters are one thing I do not miss. One little mistake and you were screwed. I know someone will say "that's what whiteout was for", but did you ever see a typed paper full of white out and erasures? Not nice looking, and certainly not professional looking. And that clatter! Good riddance.
Clatter
By FenRes
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 2:39pm
Enough people apparently do miss the sound of typewriter keys that there is, in fact a popular app for that, created by Tom Hanks, of all people.
Hopefully it sounds better
By roadman
Tue, 07/28/2015 - 12:58pm
than the fake "clatter" sound on the new train boards at North and South Stations.
I agree, but they did not suck as much as dot matrix printers
By bibliotequetress
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 7:21pm
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Boston's typewriter orchestra
By anon
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 1:32pm
Boston's typewriter orchestra needs to have a concert in front of that!
Ah, yes...
By Rob
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 3:08pm
Ah, yes...
Robinson Plaza, in front of the Sprang Building.
The only final exam I ever failed
By Gary C
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 3:49pm
was Personal Typing, in high school. By the time I was out of college I got pretty good at banging out the papers on that manual SOB, but I too never look back with anything but loathing to all that clatter.
Piano playing suffers
By Markk02474
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 6:41pm
from the loss of finger strength and dexterity youth once learned and practiced with manual typewriters.
Thanks for the pic!
By Jason
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 7:14pm
We've had a great time building that typewriter this summer in a driveway up in Reading. Next stop, burning man!
If anyone wants more info we're on facebook and at www.blunderwoodportable.com
Yup,
By whyaduck
Tue, 07/28/2015 - 5:20pm
learned how to type on those things. Remembering begin so excited to finally move on to the electrics :)
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