Have You Ever Used a Typewriter?

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Posted: 11/22/2012 9:31:26 AM EDT

Just an interesting poll.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:32:49 AM EDT

[#1]

IBTP.

Typewriter? Both manual and electric.

Hell, I've used a keypunch!

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:15 AM EDT

[#2]

IBTP and yes.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:35 AM EDT

[#3]

Nope

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:37 AM EDT

[#4]

I still have two Smith Corona cartridge types. I'm 51 and remember typing classes in high school.

Chris

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:40 AM EDT

[#5]

Had typing class in 10th grade. On an IBM.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:44 AM EDT

[#6]

That's what I learned to type on in Jr. High.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:33:52 AM EDT

[#7]

Ibtp and yes, though not for a long while.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:34:04 AM EDT

[#8]

Yes and a slide rule too.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:34:17 AM EDT

[#9]

Yes I still have to use one a good bit at work to type in stuff on the back of car titles and fill in some blanks on contracts.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:35:30 AM EDT

[#10]

Yep. My daughter was reading one of my college term papers and cracking up over all the White-Out.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:36:43 AM EDT

[#11]

This winters project.

Leaned on a typewriter. Typed quite a bit on one before computers were affordable.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:37:56 AM EDT

[#12]

Had to learn one to get through my Radioman A school in the Navy.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:39:08 AM EDT

[#13]

Took typing classes in high school.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:01 AM EDT

[#14]

I learned to type on one, and we always had one around the house when I was a kid.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:12 AM EDT

[#15]

Typing was required to graduate from my high school

We learned on IBM Selectrics if I remember correctly

I also used a typewriter when I did my time as company clerk when I was in the Army

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:20 AM EDT

[#16]

Learned on one.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:32 AM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:47 AM EDT

[#18]

My department still had them in use when I retired this past May.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:40:56 AM EDT

[#19]

Took Typing in high school (early 90s).

I own a 50s vintage portable typewriter, my parents have one from the 1920's.

Still can't type worth a shit. Left hand does fine, right hand I tend to only use two or three fingers.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:42:09 AM EDT

[#20]

Yep, I even took typing in HS so I could hang out with all the hot chicks.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:42:53 AM EDT

[#21]

Had too for school..

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:43:57 AM EDT

[#22]

9th grade,1983 typing class with a 75 year old female teacher.....

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:45:29 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

My department still had them in use when I retired this past May.

Huh, I wonder where they get parts and ribbons. I looked years ago to replace my office typewriter because there were still a few doorman that had to be typed and could not find one

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:45:52 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

9th grade,1983 typing class with a 75 year old female teacher.....

We had a nun.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:46:10 AM EDT

[#25]

11th grade elective class.
Lasted three weeks before I dropped the class.

Learned how to type though.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:47:17 AM EDT

[#26]

I marked in the poll that I used one at work all the time however that's not quite right. There wasn't an option for me. We occasionally used one at work. I also remember writing my first typed gadeschool papers on a typewriter.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:53:09 AM EDT

[#27]

Up through my last years of graduate school, I typed all my papers.

Also used a slide rule in high school.

Around 1990 I saw my first calculator in an exhibit in the Smithsonian.

I used to have an abacus, but I kept that on my computer as a back-up.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:54:30 AM EDT

[#28]

Used typewriters, 8 track tapes , rotary dial phones, Fortran computer language with data punch cards, and yes I'm old..............

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:55:21 AM EDT

[#29]

I used to repair them,(the only work I could get after the telegraph industry dwindled)

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:56:19 AM EDT

[#30]

I learned to type on a Selectric in Junior High. I knew I'd need the skill. I was right.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:57:58 AM EDT

[#31]

Took a typing class in college. Lots of hotties in class and needed the skill for my job.

This was back in the late '70s. Early SPC switching systems were coming online with Model 35 teletypes.

I could have continued with "hunt and peck" but realized I could do my job faster and easier by learning to type.

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:58:19 AM EDT

[#32]

Heck, yes! I'm in my early 40s. Learned to type on a very sticky manual ca. 1982. And I still miss IBM Selectrics!

We have an old electronic typewriter from the 90s in the office to type up the occasional gov't form that MUST be typed. I'm one of the few that actually knows how to use it AND I actually like using it. We've got youngsters who have NO idea how to work the thing!

Posted: 11/22/2012 9:58:44 AM EDT

[#33]

Yep - and a slide rule, and Microfiche, and even a Dictaphone that my grandfather used.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:00:13 AM EDT

[#34]

Pased in High skoll baerly

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:02:43 AM EDT

[#35]

I remember when I first ran into a IBM Selectric with an erase key. I though that was the greatest thing ever

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:03:54 AM EDT

[#36]

Manuel and selectric

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:04:12 AM EDT

[#37]

Took a typing class a long assed time ago. But it was Yahoo chat that really taught me how to type.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:06:09 AM EDT

[#38]

used em but I prefer computer word processors.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:06:34 AM EDT

[#39]

Played with one at my grandmother's house a couple times.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:07:02 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I remember when I first ran into a IBM Selectric with an erase key. I though that was the greatest thing ever

LOL, heck yeah! That was high tech. It was like Star Trek technology compared to using liquid white out!

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:10:57 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Manuel and selectric

^^^ Yep, this.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:12:58 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Manuel and selectric

Did Manuel enjoy it?

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:20:11 AM EDT

[#43]

I still have one in my office at work. I always say it's the backup plan for our craptastc IT system.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:20:55 AM EDT

[#44]

Took a typing class my freshman year in HS

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:21:00 AM EDT

[#45]

I serviced IBM Selectric's, as did my father before me

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:22:25 AM EDT

[#46]

Not that old, but I learned to type around the time I learned to spell and that was on a typewriter.

I wouldn't remember how to use one now however.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:23:01 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
9th grade,1983 typing class with a 75 year old female teacher.....

We had a nun.

I was taught typing by nuns as well.

Earlier when I was ten or so I would take a favorite page from a book and type it out right-and-left justified. Then my Mom got a new typewriter that had an erasing tape and a half-space key. So now I could do really nice spacing to make the columns line up.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:23:37 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I remember when I first ran into a IBM Selectric with an erase key. I though that was the greatest thing ever

LOL, heck yeah! That was high tech. It was like Star Trek technology compared to using liquid white out!

Screw white out! Do you remember the typewriter "erasers" with the stiff brush at the other end?

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:24:44 AM EDT

[#49]

I've seen one.

I've also seen a feather quill pen before.

Posted: 11/22/2012 10:26:21 AM EDT

[#50]

Freshman year HS, mandatory class, interesting format, the classroom had a large picture of a keyboard high on the wall at the front of the class, all the typewriters had blank keys, no letters, numbers or punctuation marks.

Was that the norm for typewriting instruction when you learned?

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