Do you know how to use a typewriter?

[_Lisa_]

I had to take a class in middle school for learning how to use a typewriter.

[KSigkid]

We didn't have a computer in my house until my junior year in high school, so I typed reports on a typewriter for a couple of years.

[Glitter650]

I started using a computer when I was in about 4th grade or so... (back in like '89 ? so I don't a lot of experience using typewriters, except for to play with when I would visit my mom's office back in the day and she'd let me "type" to keep me entertained. I've also used my grandmother's old non electric typewriter that still had the keys that came up to strike paper. I recently had to learn how to really use a type writer (and learn how to place margins and such) when I worked at an office that refused to update and I typed up the chekcs for accounts payable.

[RU OX Alum]

Yes, I know how to use one. Family Business. wooot

[rho4life]

I don't know how to use an electric typewriter, but I could probably rock a super old school one. I know our office has one for doing checks. I don't even know where our fax machine is at, and I am not even allowed to use the fancy copier b/c i mess it up. My secretary has SERIOUS job security, lol.

[AlphaFrog]

I heard a commercial on the radio this morning that made me think of this thread. It was something about "Make sure little Johnny has an HP-PhotoQuality Printer to print his Planet Report for his 2nd Grade class".

When I was in 2nd grade, we happened to have a dotmatrix printer, but only because my parents owned their own business. I remember in Jr. high, an girl brought in a report that had A (grainy at best) color picture printed off a bubblejet printer and we all "oohed and ahhed" over that. Now I do have to admit, by the time I was a Sr in Highschool, color photos on your reports were semi-standard, but they were still bubblejet or inkjet pics, and definitely NOT photo quality.

What's going to be standard when my toddler graduates highschool?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

\=When I was in 2nd grade, we happened to have a dotmatrix printer

I thought this said you had a dominatrix printer.

My mind = deep in the gutter.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I thought this said you had a dominatrix printer.

My mind = deep in the gutter.

Yes...did I happen to mention that my parent's business was a strip club??

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I thought this said you had a dominatrix printer.

My mind = deep in the gutter.

glad I wasn't the only one

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I thought this said you had a dominatrix printer.

My mind = deep in the gutter.

another big ditto on that.

[Kevlar281]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I heard a commercial on the radio this morning that made me think of this thread. It was something about "Make sure little Johnny has an HP-PhotoQuality Printer to print his Planet Report for his 2nd Grade class".

When I was in 2nd grade, we happened to have a dotmatrix printer, but only because my parents owned their own business. I remember in Jr. high, an girl brought in a report that had A (grainy at best) color picture printed off a bubblejet printer and we all "oohed and ahhed" over that. Now I do have to admit, by the time I was a Sr in Highschool, color photos on your reports were semi-standard, but they were still bubblejet or inkjet pics, and definitely NOT photo quality.

What's going to be standard when my toddler graduates highschool?

Haha I remember when I was in fourth grade we had to do a report on the country of your family’s origin. My mom took me to a travel agency and they gave me all these old Italy brochures for me to cut up. It’s funny now that I think about how you really used to have to go the extra mile for something like color photos before the advent of the internet and photo quality printers.