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[Bazile]

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

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

[starone]

Me too, lottie, especially when they insist on numbering something you don't want numbered.

[Robinia]

Now Lottie, pay attention you're not using a.....oops

[boxtops]

I've never been able to use the correct finger for a, q, 1 - I have a bent little finger and it doesn't have the strength.

[netibiza]

When I was at secretarial college we had to type in time to music and never ever let the full stops come through the paper, life was dire!!!

[LoftyLottie]

Ha, ha Robi.

I don't think I could physically manage to type anything now on a manual typewriter. Manual labour of the fingers OMG!!

[LoftyLottie]

Life was dire, but we didn't know anything else Neti. It was such hard work. I actually loved shorthand much better than I liked typing.

[netibiza]

I could never master the art of Centering! so used to fold g
the paper, leave a dot with pencil, the count the letters of the heading then work it out that way, no one ever knew! and do not get me started of carbon copies, what a mess!!

[netibiza]

I was a complete cheat with shorthand, could never learn it but had such a good memory that's how I got through transcribing!

[boxtops]

I couldn't master shorthand, I fared better with Pitmanscript but invented my own version that I only I could read

[netibiza]

but what a joy when Tippex was invented!!

[Robinia]

I think I was shown the door in typing class...all the noise made it too easy to talk and giggle without being heard.

[boxtops]

I'd forgotten about corrector ribbon :-)

[marval]

I would not want to go back to a typewriter. The keys on the one I had always seemed to stick.

[albaqwerty]

3-1 oil marval! :-D Too much and it was a blurry mess on the page.

[netibiza]

Remember the popping paper we used to clean the keys, splashed everywhere!

[netibiza]

I loved sniffing the tippex!!!

[julia-mag]

I remember every friday afternoon taking the typewriter apart and cleaning it thoroughly with that smelly Meths stuff ready for the following week! Not only did you have to know HOW to use it but how to keep it running!. Oh yes and in the bank I did 'shares portfolios' in triplicate and one error and you started again! You soon learnt to respect your machine......

[grasscarp]

Does anyone remember typing stencils. They had an orange correcting fluid that went all gloopy. You then had to put an ink in the central drum to make copies.

[Mammar]

I still use it's predecessor

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=image+fountain+pen&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#biv=i|4;d|GOg3UBaHFC8sEM:

[Mammar]

Apologies for errant apostrophe. Failed to proof read. My old Imperial wouldn't presume to insert punctuation for me, bless it.