Monomad Typewriter
I Remember When
Who remembers manual typewriters? I learned to type on one, not like the one in the photograph of course because that's a portable, but an Olympus 80 if I recall.
And then those golf ball ones came out that were super duper because you could correct your mistakes and then models in general that had correction ribbons.
Before that it had been all that faffing about with carbon copies, because photocopiers hadn't been invented either.
Blimey, I sound ancient. 😢
Or maybe interesting in a "tell me what it was like in the old days Grandma" kind of way! 😂
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Haha! We had an IBM correctable selectric (golf ball one), too. I remember doing homework papers on that thing. I also had (might still have) an all-manual portable one.
Great photo of "the beast!"
Thanks @fotosdenada. No way would we have been allowed to do homework on a typewriter! 😊
Haha. I only got to type important papers. The rest were hand written. Even when we got a word processor and printer, almost everything had to be done by hand.
I actually prefer a more tactile, manual interface. Beyond able to copy/paste and undo are a huge improvement, though!
You got me beat in terms of oldest typewriter I actually owned myself. My mom had one of those. I did have a typewriter in college though, even though a lot of students were starting to get Macs at the time. So glad to not need a correction ribbon anymore... or white out! Or to have to calculate margins instead of their being auto-return!
That's one I bought recently for some art work although it was more of a romantic notion than practical I think. I do use it occasionally to type on fabric and I like how it's uneven compared to a typewriter font on a printer but there's no room for mistakes and no way to correct them. 😊
Hi @gillinapearce... I liked manual typewriters because together with those dotmatrix printers I was able to use any scrappy piece of paper including home-made paper... as long as it was 'smoothish' it worked. Nowadays it would all get stuck inside 😑
That's what I brought it for, @cryptocariad, for messing around typing on fabric and home made papers.
I bought it at a local market but, to be honest, I've not used it that much. 😁
I remember changing the ribbon and also using that correcting paper @gillianpearce... 😂 😂 😂
Do you remember using carbon paper too @cryptocariad, before photo copiers and those stencil things that used to go through an inking machine. I can't remember what they were called.
The ink used to be purple if I recall. What on earth were they called? 😁
Yes... I remember the carbon copies and correcting mistakes on the copies made as well 😁 ... I was relieved when word processors were invented @gillianpearce 😁...
I never used one of those duplicating machines, but @pennsif's suggested two different terms : mimeographs which used purple ink apparently or gestetner ?
Thank @pennsif for his guesses but I'm pretty sure it wasn't either of those @cryptocarid. Hopefully it will come to me sometime soon. 😂
I wrote my first poems on a typewriter. During my studies I had a typing course. Oh it was so long ago :-) Greetings
I did a typing course too @margaretwise. In fact I did a number of them. It is a skill that I've been glad I learned many times in my life.
I'm surprised you typed your first poem though. Most of the ones I've written, maybe all of them, have been with pen and paper. 😊
I too sound old because typewriters are from my time. But I never managed to learn to write with them, lol! Lovely photo, sweetie!
Learning to type was one of the most useful things I've ever done @nolasco. it meant I was always able to get a job and it's very useful for blogging too! 😁
Indeed! That's why I type like a little monkey till today. One of the things I envy is someone writing with all the fingers :)! I guess I envy you, then! Big hug!
It's never too late to teach yourself @nolasco. My daughter taught herself with a free online course.
But that was before she had already developed a lot of bad habits! 😁
Ahaha, I still can type, after all! I want to spend my time on so many things I don't believe it will be enough to get that course, Gillian! Anyway, thanks for the advise <3!
Ahaha, our kids usually get those when they grow up a little more ;)
Blimey? What's that? And what is a type writer? Didn't they used to have those in like 1492? I remember using wordperfect 3.0 and that's bad enough but a type writer - you might as well engrave lead plates and use a printing press.
PS
My step kid already calls me old fart
Well obviously your step kid is wrong. You are clearly not old enough to get that label @spozone.
All old farts must have used a typewriter at some point. You simple don't qualify! 😁
blimey I'm ancient too! lol Howdy there @gillianpearce yes this does bring back memories, pounded out a lot of school reports and essays on those old things, but I learned on the manuals and then when the electrics came out we thought we'd died and gone to heaven!
Those first electrics were dead clunky though. I had a portable one of those too and yes I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. 😂
I actually preferred to office size manuals. I was much more accurate on those than on the electrics or a computer keyboard.
yes Ma'am I agree. I slaughtered the spelling on the electrics because the keys were so sensitive and would add letters. lol.
I'd like to have some of the manuals now because they'd be collectibles.
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