Do You .....

[Bazile]

still use one of these - do you know anyone who still does ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20410364

[grasscarp]

Brings back memories, type too fast and all the keys clumped together and you had to pull them apart and carry on a bit slower. Making corrections with little bits of paper between the copies, until they introduced corrector ribbon, but that was only any good with a single sheet. Happy days.

[ummmm]

My nan used to time us on how quickly we could type the alphabet.

[JMR27]

I remember my sister learned to type on a remington. It weighed a ton and you had to wallop the keys really hard - typing a letter on that thing was equivalent to a major workout.

[Nibble]

You need a lot of patience and skill to "draw" this on a typewriter....


http://www.gopherillustrated.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KeiraRathbone.jpg

[albaqwerty]

I remember when my office went all up-market with a golf-ball machine :-D

[tenrec]

Those were the days! I worked in a solicitors and if you made an errror typing a will you had to start again! How times change.

[grasscarp]

I learnt to type with blank keys so you learnt where everything was. Has made the rest of my life at the keyboard very easy as you never need to look.

[craft1948]

I don't use it but I still have my portable Olivetti........

[Baldric]

Still got one somewhere, gathering dust!

[EcclesCake]

Tenrec, I can understand the need to start afresh with a will. You don't want disputes on the most important legal document other than a pre-Nup....... ;-)

[tenrec]

Quite right Eccles, but as an office junior, it was hard going!

[Traci66]

I still have one, not used it in years, taught my children how to type on it though.

[Bazile]

I remember the days when i used to write what i wanted in rough on sheets of A4 paper and send it to the ladies , in the typing pool , to be typed up .

How times have changed , eh ?

[starone]

I taught typewriting but still make mistakes. Personally I like using this computer. I certainly wouldn't want to go back to an old fashioned typewriter. However, it is a big advantage if you can type because you don't have to search for the keys and can do it so much more quickly.

[tenrec]

Agree Starby. Has stood me in very good stead all these years.

[LoftyLottie]

This makes me feel really really really old!!!
I am now part of ancient history and deserve a place in a museum. "Ancient Stenographer"

[Robinia]

ooh, I used to love the old 'cickety-clack' noise of a typewriter.

[boxtops]

Me too, grasscarp, and later with a shield over the keys. In order to be rhythmic, the teacher played the William Tell Overture - then when you go really good, it was the Flight of the Bumblebee!

I'll never forget my first lesson in audio typing - part of the spoken text was... "pro forma in triplicate..." - you had to understand the terminology in order to be able to transcribe it!
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[LoftyLottie]

And I agree with Starby. I would hate to go back to a typewriter but love the fact that I can type with minimum effort and without looking at the keys. What I do hate about using computers though is that the Word Processing programmes try to think for you and do things you don't want. Us old typists are quite used to setting out, numbering etc. as we go along and I still prefer to do so.

[LoftyLottie]

Typing on a manual typewriter didn't half strengthen up my little finger.