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When is the last time you used a typewriter? (If you know what they are, of course.)

Posted - March 28, 2018
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  • 3375
    The last time I used one was in the mid eighties.  It was electric.
      March 28, 2018 12:29 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    1961... (manual)
      March 28, 2018 12:59 PM MDT
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  • 3375
    I used one in the 70s.  I thought electric typewriters were amazing after using a manual.
      March 28, 2018 1:16 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    Similar to driving a stick shift car to an automatic shift... This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at March 28, 2018 8:45 PM MDT
      March 28, 2018 2:05 PM MDT
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  • 3375
    Love the emoticon!  
      March 29, 2018 9:13 AM MDT
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  • 2658
      March 29, 2018 9:56 AM MDT
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  • 23577
    About a week ago. I didn't really use one, though; I only listened to Leroy Anderson's fun "The Typewriter."
    :)

    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at March 28, 2018 8:46 PM MDT
      March 28, 2018 1:06 PM MDT
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  • 2658
      March 28, 2018 2:57 PM MDT
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  • 23577
    Thanks, Beans/SilentGeneration! I think this song is cool, too!
    :)
      March 28, 2018 7:17 PM MDT
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  • 3375
    This song would have made me envious in the day.  I could only peck a key here and a key there.  I practically flunked typing in high school.  Yeh.  I was that bad.  I got my revenge though with having a laptop.  I type faster than my brain cells, hence my typos.  Oh well.  

    I do get a kick out of the song too.
      March 28, 2018 8:53 PM MDT
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  • 23577
    :)
    :)
      March 29, 2018 6:50 AM MDT
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  • My best guess is 1985.  I can't remember if it was pica or elite I liked better.
      March 28, 2018 1:24 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    I learned to type on a manual typewriter.  (My dad sent me to learn how to type at the local business school during the summer when I was 12.---One of the best suggestions he ever gave me.)

    I typed my assignments in English in the second half of junior year in high school---It took me about an hour to finish.  (It was rewriting paragraphs and putting the sentences in proper order---topic sentence, conclusion---that sort of thing.)  Others in my class were taking 4-5 hours by hand.

    I graduated from the business school at the minimum 30 words per minute.  I finished my junior year at 90 words per minute.  I've maintained about 60 words per minute since then.

    I still have the typewriter from my youth.  Last time I used it was to fill out some 3-part forms about 10 years ago.



      
      March 28, 2018 2:24 PM MDT
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  • 44617
    Yeah, they still use them at our schools for those pesky triplicate forms.
      March 28, 2018 3:57 PM MDT
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  • 16781
    I last used an electric typrewriter about ten years ago. Everything is word processors these days.

    Manual typewriter? 1986, before Dad bought our first computer. Mum's old Underwood, weighed a ton and the keys kept getting stuck.
      March 28, 2018 7:22 PM MDT
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  • 44617
    I believe they used whale oil for lubricating them back in the day.
      March 28, 2018 7:41 PM MDT
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      Probably a decade ago.   You?
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      March 28, 2018 8:47 PM MDT
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