eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

[David Hardy]

I took a typing class in high school back in the late 60s and was the only
boy in the class.

Clever bastard, eh?

But I learned to type real well and to this day can manage 51 WPM, no
errors.  Only drawback was
that for years of soldier and cop work, I was the designated report writer.
 And the advantages have
been pretty good since.  I have long since lost track of, or simply lost,
the couple of manual typewriters
I used to have, and I am given to understand that Olivetti of Italy was/is?
the last manufacturer of them.

And back when we were growing up, we not only did not have PCs, the
internet, or air, we also had to
make our own water and walk uphill both ways to and from school in the worst
weather ever in human history
while reciting the multiplication table and doing long division with our
fingernails on slate chalkboards.

Just found this via the Usual Method:

*Olivetti Typewriter* Manual Linea 98

*Overview* - Online
stores<http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=Olivetti+typewriters&cid=12623040631025407537&os=sellers>
 - Details<http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=Olivetti+typewriters&cid=12623040631025407537&os=contents>
[image: Olivetti Typewriter Manual Linea 98]

$249 online<http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=Olivetti+typewriters&cid=12623040631025407537&os=sellers>
This is a new heavy duty standard typewriter. Full size keyboard and 13"
carriage. New Machine - EBS 800-816-6855






Seems kind of steep and getting close to the price of a PC these days...

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> > I still have my old SEARS portable, manual (non-electric) typewriter
> > in my closet.
>
>   I still have my Corona Model 3 typewriter.  Built circa 1920.  Just
> "Corona"; it was before they merged with Smith.  It belonged to my
> grandfather.  It still works.  I once used it to type a paper for
> middle/high school, when my PC crapped out for some reason (I had, of
> course, waited until the night before it was due).  It has two shift
> keys: CAP and FIG, the later of which does numbers and punctuation.
> The shift keys actually shift the entire carriage/platen assembly up.
>
> > Today, most college kids don't know what a typewriter is ...
>
>  Why, when I was growing up, we didn't even have air!  ;-)
>
> -- Ben
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