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Originally posted by Shaftski View PostI miss them. Been thinking about picking one up for sending thank you notes, stuff like that. People really appreciate the extra effort of mech typing something and dropping it in the mail. Classy. Each document is like a hand crafted work of art.
Originally posted by Cunha View PostA lot of the ribbons are still available.
Originally posted by Spider! View PostThe keys are a longer and much stiffer travel than anything else. You have to adapt to the keyboard.
That's probably not a big deal. The hard part for me would be slowing down so that I don't make mistakes. I'm really good at hitting the back space key now, which is not something you're supposed to use much on a typewriter.
Originally posted by punkncat View PostI had a Royal at one point but am not really sure what happened to it.
Particularly the Royal, was not a typewriter that you needed to know how to type. It was all henpeck because you had to hit the keys so hard.
I don't mind the stiffness of the keystrokes. I'm currently typing on a mechanical keyboard and I actually wish the switches were stiffer, lol.
Originally posted by bellicose View PostI've got one that I got a garage sale a while back for $10. It mostly works...sometimes. The reason I got it was for demonstrations when I used to teach keyboarding to my high school students. The school abandoned the curriculum a few years back, and it just takes up space in my classroom at the moment. It's too heavy to ship, but I'd give it to you if you were close.
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I found my typewriter through craigslist.
Funny enough, if I get into a writing mood, its on my typewriter.
To me, there's something very satisfying about putting ink in paper. Feels permanent unlike typing on a computer. Also, it's much faster than writing. I enjoy the tangible nature of it all.
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yeah, there have been quite a few things that have gotten easier over time but have gotten worse in the process.
were conditioned for it really. digital music is a shell of the actual sound and the thing that still trips me up is that fact that there are 3 primary colors (red, yellow, blue) yet computer monitor's and tv's only have red, green, and blue pixels. Wait, wtf, how am i looking at yellow images on my monitor if there is no yellow pixels and if yellow is a primary color, how can you display yellow by blending other colors....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space because of how light mixing works. Most of us were incorrectly 'educated' about what primary colors are... the biggest tell being that 'primary colors' is a concept, rather than a rigid definition of any particular color set.
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*Revive!
My wife is on vacation & found one in an antique store (not sure exactly how “antique” the store was, but eh). A ‘70s Underwood 319. Quick research says is this is a clone of the Olivetti Lettera 22.
From my understanding, Olivetti bought out Underwood some time before & revived it in the ‘80s. I’m not sure if this is a straight-up clone or if these were outsourced to Olivetti before that (just did some quick research while on the phone with her, lol), but it seemed like it was good.
My wife tried all the keys, levers & whatnot and everything seemed in good condition & smooth in operation. 70 bucks. I ordered some ribbon tonight as well. Something to play around with, anyway.There was also an Olympia there, but it wasn’t in as good of shape & she said the keys were significantly more stiff, and I don’t want to spend the time doing an initial cleaning. So I opted for this one. Good enough for a first typewriter I think.
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I have a circa-1926 Underwood, left me by my dad. he used it in his office for many years.
I used to hate the idea that people would pull them apart to make things like that peacock, or Datamancer style steampunk keyboards... 'Til I found out that by the time this '26 was made, Underwood alone had already made something like 21 million of them. And there were literally hundreds of makers in those early days.
Now, countless millions have certainly been scrapped, tossed, parted out for artworks, or otherwise lost, but there's still millions around.
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Cdn_Cuda Yeah, I thought it'd be fitting.
Might be fun to do this once in a while for normal forum posts.
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