The Last of the Typewriters

[Florence Fennel]

Apparently the last typewriter has been made today. Oh the sweet memories of learning to touch type to 78 records on an Imperial 66 and an Olivetti over 40 years ago (well over actually, but keep that under your keyboard)

ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ Carriage .... Return!

Humour me, I'm feeling a little decrepit this morning.

[zazen999]

I remember learning to touch type with bits of paper stuck over the keys in the very early 80s.

It was all New Romantics then. Happy Days.

[Newton]

I remember learning to touch type with bits of paper stuck over the keys in the very early 80s.

Wow....how old are you now then ZAZ?

It was all New Romantics then. Happy Days.

Can't type though.......

[veggiechicken]

Never learnt to touch type but I did learn to play the piano. So I don't make typing mistakes - just play the wrong chords - a bit off-key.

[alldigging]

I have a lovely typewriter in my study. For show mostly as it takes a bit too much effort for my poor hands to use.
I used to spend hours typing when I was a teenager on a little green portable one.

[Florence Fennel]

Now my thoughts have drifted to a Gestetner stencil duplicator. Documents had to be typed on to stencils and copies were run off by winding a handle I was still a Junior Secretary when Sheffield University bought a photocopier, that was cool

[Bren In Pots]

Not sure about others but I found typing on a PC strange compared to the typewriter. it did take a bit of getting used to.

[northepaul]

I used to have a word processor......bit like an electronic typewriter.....back in the late 80s!

New Romantics sucked!

Bring back INXS!

[maytreefrannie]

Apparently the last typewriter has been made today. Oh the sweet memories of learning to touch type to 78 records on an Imperial 66 and an Olivetti over 40 years ago (well over actually, but keep that under your keyboard)

ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ ASDF :LKJ Carriage .... Return!

Humour me, I'm feeling a little decrepit this morning.

I learned to type years ago, using a machine that required pretty strong fingers. Still, touch typing comes in handy even today, in these days of electronic communication.

[veggiechicken]

For Flo and Touchtypists everywhere
BBC News - UK's 'last typewriter' produced

[Potstubsdustbins]

When I first started on my own I had a type writer. Even with one finger it would take 10 sheets of paper to write the simplest of letters.

I love my putor espec the spell check, even I can write a half decent letter.

Colin

[veggiechicken]

I lorve Speal Chequer two, Potty

[Florence Fennel]

Proud to say I've never had to use a spell checker. We were taught to read our work through in the usual way and then from the end to the beginning. Three dictionaries - Collins English, Blakiston's Gould Medical and my own notebook of medical terminology. My working life was much simpler back then. Wistful sigh.

[Alison]

Not sure what I learnt on but remember the pain of getting the pressure equal so it still looked OK. Learnt as an additional option in the mid '80s and it's been very useful, getting me student jobs and handy in the computer age - still love being able to look at people as they come over and still carry on typing as I ask them what they want - freaks them out every time as they don't expect it. Was going to do shorthand the year afterwards but that was at lunchtime so never did learn that.

[Florence Fennel]

My grandchildren love to stand by my side to see me type what they say whilst I'm looking at them Alison. They are also fascinated by Pitman shorthand. I still use it in meetings - it's handy to write down things I don't want other people to understand.