Has anyone else in the forums ever own/use a typewriter?

[raykv423 1,689]

Ok, I always kinda wanted a typewriter since some of the great authors ever used it, even Ray Bradbury, Joe Heller and Hemingway.

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Come on, I'm not the only nerd here, am I? 

So I'm wondering if anyone else here in MLP Forums ever own/use a typewriter, Pictures of it are fine.

Edited February 15, 2021 by raykv423

[ExplosionMare 18,066]

I sure wish I could have at least seen a real life one before

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

I did use a typewriter once at my middle school in literature class. But that was my only experience using a typewriter

[Yuichan 29]

My Parents used to have one when I was younger! I always messed around with it. 

It was really old, like really really old, it looked like a 80's Keyboard but way bigger and heavier. I used it once for something school related, but after that I actually never saw that thing again (unfortunately.)  If I ever come to find ours again, I'll definitely use it a lot for personal documents. It was really fun typing on it. 

[Pentium100 2,139]

Yes, I have used a typewriter a few tiimes when I was a kid. There is a typewriter in my house, but it's in Cyrillic, so, not much use to me, though, I guess, if I wanted to record some Russian music to a cassette, I could use that typewriter to write on the j-card (I can't really write Cyrillic by hand and a j-card is too small for my printer). The ribbon is a bit dry though, but, IIRC there are ways to revive it.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I had a typewriter once typed on it a few times however as it was during times of printers and computers of course the typewriter was one of those things that was lying around and probably still is somewhere. Regardless, typing on a typewriter does feel different and gives you a new appreciation for spelling words correctly and to make sure you have commas and dots. There are of course typewriter erasers, however there are many types of typewriters classic ones and more modern ones. I suppose however that most think of the classic typewriter with their loud sounds but the more modern ones weren't much different from writing on a computer really haha.

Edited February 16, 2021 by Fluttershyfan94

[Wingnut 7,000]

I had a toy quality typewriter when I was little but I never used it  much. I was trained to type on an electronic typewriter in high school.  But for one of my term papers, which had to be typed, I had to bang it out on a manual typewriter which was the only kind available after hours.  Then by college I had a home computer and an old school dot matrix printer with tractor fed paper.  The good old days.  

[raykv423 1,689]

3 minutes ago, Wingnut said:

I had a toy quality typewriter when I was little but I never used it  much. I was trained to type on an electronic typewriter in high school.  But for one of my term papers, which had to be typed, I had to bang it out on a manual typewriter which was the only kind available after hours.  Then by college I had a home computer and an old school dot matrix printer with tractor fed paper.  The good old days.  

so is the home computer you mentioned shaped like the box? 

[Cagey 4,248]

I—or more specifically, my sister—had a typewriter when we were little. I think she got it from our father, who had some. I don’t know if he still has one, though.

[Wingnut 7,000]

6 minutes ago, raykv423 said:

so is the home computer you mentioned shaped like the box? 

Yup.  It had a dial up modem that made the funny sounds and I saved all my documents on floppy disks.  

[raykv423 1,689]

4 minutes ago, Wingnut said:

Yup.  It had a dial up modem that made the funny sounds and I saved all my documents on floppy disks.  

runs like a lunatic to steal your dial-up computers, typewriters and dot printer.

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/joke

 

Edited February 16, 2021 by raykv423

[raykv423 1,689]

32 minutes ago, Wingnut said:

floppy disks

I even knew what's a floppy disk, dot matrix printer and a dial up computer despite my young age (I'm 16 and a half to be precise) lol 

[Wingnut 7,000]

2 minutes ago, raykv423 said:

I even knew what's a floppy disk, dot matrix printer and a dial up computer despite my young age (I'm 16 and a half to be precise) lol 

But have you ever used an 8-track tape player?  I never had one but I got to play with a neighbor’s.  

[raykv423 1,689]

2 minutes ago, Wingnut said:

But have you ever used an 8-track tape player?  I never had one but I got to play with a neighbor’s.  

Yes, Although I used it at elementary school a while back and I remember vividly that it's a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom music cassette.

I'm trying to find the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom audio cassette online, especially on YouTube.

Edited February 16, 2021 by raykv423

[Fhaolan 4,484]

Heh. Yes. I had a old mechanical typewriter. Heck, when I was in High School I took a typing course.

Of course, my first IT job was at the headquarters of a mining company in northern Ontario, running a sneaker-net taking the 7-bit punch tape from a heavy iron mainframe to the next building to transfer the data to a 8" floppy via a customized teletype machine, which I would then run a floor up to the minicomputer running the accounting system... Mining and petroleum industries were always a bit behind in technologies, so this was stuff considered antique even in my day.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

When I was in elementary school, my dad let me play with his old portable typewriter.

(I used to play news reporter!)

[Northern Star 1,024]

"Grandma" had an electric one...it was fun to type on it, I think it was made to make 3 or 4 carbon copies judging by the speed and force of its arms. It was hard trying to find ribbons for it and right when we found ribbons, the neighbor threw it away when they were "helping". We had used it up until we couldn't find ribbons and then once we found ribbons we started using it again. So from the 80s to 2012 and then from 2015 to the summer of 20. Cheaper than using the ink jet that was always out of ink.

We have a manual Singer or Remington in the basement I think. Needs a ribbon and some jb80 or PB blaster but otherwise works fine.  Fits in a neat little suitcase like thing.  Again I haven't had much luck with ribbons though. 

Also we still have and use 8 tracks and I've been shopping for an OKI 320(dot matrix printer, they seem to be the only ones that stand up to being abused, so it should work for printing invoices out of a pickup cab)

Edited February 16, 2021 by TheGleaner

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I used a modern typewriter a couple times for school projects in 3rd grade, but haven't used one since.

[SasQ 1,379]

Yup, I still have one somewhere on my attic   I'll try to find it and make a photo later.

Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore, from what I remember (something broke in it).

Nevertheless, I was using it before I got my first computer

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

I sure have! I've used both an electric and also a manual style vintage typewriter. It was really interesting. 

[O-78 28,607]

My family used to have a vintage typewriter when I was younger, but we sold it a long time ago.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

I used one as a kid. In school I used an electric typewriter.

[Astralshy 27,023]

Actually I did. This was shortly before my parents bought their first PC. So I know how it is to type on it. But this is really a long time ago,

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

It's so satisfying typing on that old stuff

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[TheRockARooster 51,809]

I’ve used a typewriter many times as a kid.