In the military and elsehere I used to type with these old typewriters, a long time ago, but now they are the history …
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I remember the old ibm golf ball typewriters
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They look amazing.
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I still have my old Olympia electric. It was a strange one, electric but w/o the ball. A winter gift from my parents in 1980. I used it all thru my schooling. Nowadays, finding a replacement ribbon would be near impossible, and also impracticable. A useless hunk of junk. Might as well toss it if I can’t use it.
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do they still teach typing in school,
I had a whole semester class of it.
I remember the white out slips for typos.
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I don’t know. I don’t think it needs teaching anymore, what with PCs and mobiles everywhere.
Yes, I took typing in 8th grade.
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I bet you’re still a pretty good typist, huh?
I think I can get as high as 60 words a minute.
but I’m also a writer.
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It’s called “keyboarding” now and they integrate it into Elementary instruction. My daughter could touch type by grade four. As an aside, I once got suspended from a school because of typing class. I told my typing teacher – whose name I forget – that she would look pretty much like Hitler if only she trimmed her mustache a bit. Didn’t go over well.
I’ve got an old Underwood manual typewriter as a decoration in my office. The mechanics still work, but good luck finding a ribbon.
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60 words a minute is a lot …
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haha, that’s pretty young, but I suppose it’s replacing cursive writing.?
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I keep my diaries and I write my thoughts daily in my paper notebook using my pen. I am not a very fast writer, I just wrote 100 words and it took 5 minutes, so 20 words a minute, sometimes I have to think first before I handwrite my thoughts.
I started maintaining my paper notebooks in February 1999 and since then I have written tens of notebooks, all notebooks are handwritten in either Finnish or English.
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My school must not have been well funded. Learned on a electronic typewriter from the eighties. Or maybe they wanted to write our mistakes in stone.
The best we’re those electric typewriters… Just makes you ask why?!
I remember those electric typewriters, it was a big advancement to be able to write the certain number of words without immediately writing these on paper, when I completed my military service, I was a scribe and we got one of these electric typewriters, the major advancement.
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