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National Typewriter Day  "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down a typewriter and bleed." Ernest Hemingway  There’s a sound we all know, even if we don’t quite recall it. It’s the mechanical clatter of a mechanical typewriter in action. It is reminiscent in the soulless tapping of keys on modern keyboards and recalled in the sounds of the elite of the keyboard world, the mechanical keyboard. None of them quite reach the splendor and grandeur of a typewriter in action. June 23rd Typewriter celebrates this humble device and the amazing pieces of literature it’s brought to us over the decades.  Typewriters were originally conceived of in 75 by an Italian print maker, though it never saw production (and to be fair it wasn’t QUITE a typewriter, but the vestiges were there). In we have patents in Britain from a Mr. Henry Mill that seems to be a typewriter from the design and was explicitly described as being intended for that purpose. It appears that at some point the device was actually made, though it never went into production and no examples of it exist today. Another example was designed in 1802 by Agostino Fantoni to help his blind sister write. Pietro Conti di Vilavegna invented yet another. It wasn’t until 1895 that a model went into actual production with the Ford Typewriter. From there the world has never looked back, and typewriters started finding their way into private homes and places of business alike.  Some of the most important classics of the last 0 years have been produced on a typewriter, including the earliest examples of Stephen King’s work, Ernest Hemingway, name a professional writer who wrote a piece of any significance, and odds are that they were written on a typewriter. Typewriter reminds us that while keyboards may be the key to modern literature, the world we live in was conceived on a typewriter.  See if someone you know has a typewriter, or dig your old one of your closet or attic. Spend some time learning to appreciate the sound of the typewriter and the style of writing it provides. You’ll soon find that the steady clacking of the keys encourages creativity, inspires greatness, and lends a form of satisfaction not found when writing on a modern keyboard. Who knows, this holiday may lead to you writing the next great classic!  |
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6/22/2019 8:33 pm |
please forgive me... we are getting a major storm.... the power goes OFF till the generator kicks in... but I have LOST everything I have written.
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No worries my dear Bret. I will check on your blog post 2morrow. Our bad weather has cleared up after we sent it downwind to you. Sorry about that. Went to the Pride parade today and had fun, even though the wind was blustery and the temp was chilly. After lunch, the sun came out and all was swell.
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6/22/2019 8:57 pm |
No worries my dear Bret. I will check on your blog post 2morrow. Our bad weather has cleared up after we sent it downwind to you. Sorry about that. Went to the Pride parade today and had fun, even though the wind was blustery and the temp was chilly. After lunch, the sun came out and all was swell.
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6/22/2019 9:00 pm |
say all the romantic crap about those old blunderbusses SOME OF US NEED SPELL CHECK! or gallons of white out!
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say all the romantic crap about those old blunderbusses SOME OF US NEED SPELL CHECK! or gallons of white out!
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6/22/2019 10:11 pm |
Spell check is a Godsend for those of us who have fingers so large that they hit two keys at a time. I was never able to master the long stroke challenges of a mechanical typewriter, even though I tried my best in school. At work, my secretary had an electric typewriter that made me so jealous. Just before I retired from the office there were some hand-me-down dedicated word processors delivered that made life easier for the secretaries. Since that time, PC's have revolutionized the typing and filing agonies.
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I used to type with that old Corona style typewriter.Oh gawd I was so slow.
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6/23/2019 8:15 am |
I used to type with that old Corona style typewriter.Oh gawd I was so slow.
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6/23/2019 3:27 pm |
I took a semester of typing 101 in High school but have forgotten most of it outside of the rudimentary basics. It's so ingrained having to be my own boss, filling clerk , and secretary
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6/23/2019 3:29 pm |
I use a modified "hunt and peck" that still produces in a flurry a good speedy result for me.
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6/23/2019 3:32 pm |
There's an old Corona up in the attic that can stay there until the breakdown of society and humanity as we know it.
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6/23/2019 6:00 pm |
I don't think so.... That is a bit before his time and FORD would be in the middle letters of the second row!
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6/23/2019 6:02 pm |
I think so and I can really get some good bursts of speed when I need it with limited errors.
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6/23/2019 6:03 pm |
Oh crap NO! Please get back to us ASAP!
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I took basic typing in high school and do remember the home keys. I have had an old mechanical and also an electric. Both were made by Royal. Even though I was in a male mode when in school I still had visions and fantasies of being a sexy female secretary. That was before computer keyboards but there might have still been a few dinosaurs roaming around when I was in high school  . There is till a bit of clatter even when I am using a PC keyboard cuz I type with my nails. Husband tells me that he knows when I am typing although I am in another room where we keep the computers (we each have our own PC). I do have my own nails now that my beautician/manicurist takes care of me.
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6/24/2019 11:12 am |
I took basic typing in high school and do remember the home keys. I have had an old mechanical and also an electric. Both were made by Royal. Even though I was in a male mode when in school I still had visions and fantasies of being a sexy female secretary. That was before computer keyboards but there might have still been a few dinosaurs roaming around when I was in high school . There is till a bit of clatter even when I am using a PC keyboard cuz I type with my nails. Husband tells me that he knows when I am typing although I am in another room where we keep the computers (we each have our own PC). I do have my own nails now that my beautician/manicurist takes care of me.
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I used my dads one in French Keys. Call it National hairpulling day!
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6/25/2019 8:58 am |
I used my dads one in French Keys. Call it National hairpulling day!
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No but it had a little rubber wheel shaped eraser for rubbing the typing errors which didn't work worth a fk!
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6/26/2019 8:56 pm |
No but it had a little rubber wheel shaped eraser for rubbing the typing errors which didn't work worth a fk!
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Yes lots of paper in the waste basket
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6/30/2019 12:58 pm |
Yes lots of paper in the waste basket
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