Comments on: DO YOU HEAR ME WRITING?

By: Sherri

Sherri — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:56 +0000

That one worked, but I imagined it anyway. :)

By: M.

M. — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:42:45 +0000

Here, try this link. If that doesn't work, just imagine an owner's card taped to the inside of the carrying case marked October, 1973. Yes, the AT&T is an electronic daisy wheel typewriter. It's nowhere near as fun as the Smith-Corona, but it's much quieter and some days that's exactly what my head wants in a word processor.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:41:13 +0000

Sarah, I remember those days. Oh, the bangles…

Fal–tee-hee.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:59:29 +0000

wow, this takes me back to the admissions job I had in the eighties, working at a university, pounding away on my Selectric II. I feel like I should sport a modified shag haircut while wearing a belted, oversized shirt and leggings, and lots of bangles on my wrists that click in time to the keys…

By: DarcsFalcon

DarcsFalcon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:53:37 +0000

Yeah, mine had a daisy wheel.

So … you like balls, huh? I think most girls do. There’s just something so … round … about them. ;)

By: Sherri

Sherri — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:29:21 +0000

The SC you’re talking about is similar to the Brother electronic one I had, with the backspace corrections. Mine had a daisy wheel that never grew on me like the ball did. Guess I just like balls.

By: DarcsFalcon

DarcsFalcon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:18:01 +0000

So THAT’S what that noise was! ;)

I used to have a Smith Corona word processing typewriter. It was pretty cool — it had a little display and like a 50k dictionary so you could look up words (and it would beep if you misspelled something), and it had a lift-off tape for corrections — you could hit the backspace key and it would lift off the last things typed. I thought it was awesome, and even though the typewriter is no longer manufactured, SC is still selling supplies for it. I kind of miss it.

You keep up that good work hon — great things will come of it. :)

By: Sherri

Sherri — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:04:54 +0000

Oh my gosh, yellowcat, I ’bout peed my pants. LOL

Knyt, I’ve used Word before to translate some scanned-in pages, if that’s what OCR means.

M., your link didn’t work for me. The AT&T is an electronic typewriter? You’re right, it’s just not the same as an analog one. I had a Brother a long time ago, and it didn’t impress itself upon me like that old IBM did in high school.

By: M.

M. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:24:14 +0000

The new typewriter I got (my mother’s from college–an AT&T 6210 Surespell) has an automatic lift-off tape feature that erases text (well, depending on how well that section of tape has aged), which is nice but when I use it I find myself missing the sound of that clunky, noisy Smith-Corona.

I’ll probably bounce between the two, but the Smith-Corona is definitely my favorite. As for its age, mine’s got yours beat by a couple years: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rlj90j&s=5

Hooray for typewriters!

By: yellowcat

yellowcat — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:53:26 +0000

Typewriters aren’t the only things that come out of the closet on Craig’s List, if you know what I mean.