Do you know how to use a typewriter?

[MexicanMami0286]

Originally Posted by GAC3710

I am a writer also. Have any work published?

yeah, a few things in some lit mags. i've been submitting a lot of work lately. i do a lot of poetry and essays, memoir type things. i also write articles (music, lit reviews, art reviews, etc.)

do you have anything published?

[lake]

I had an internship about two years ago and this guy wanted me to type something on an electric typewriter and after fiddling around with it for awhile I finally had to sheepishly tell him I was unsure how to proceed. I'm a techno-geek and feel like a fish in water with computers, but a typewriter? No.

[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.

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by AXiD670

This might seem like a really stupid topic, but oh well. I'm curious.

Today, I gave the runner at our law firm (a local college student who works part-time) an assignment, but it had to be done on the typewriter. She was like, "Okay, but how do I work this thing?" She had never used a typewriter before. That blew my mind -- I've never met anyone who hasn't. I think she may have been born in 1985 or 1986.

So, I thought I'd bring the question over here. Have you ever used a typewriter? If not, post the year you were born.

I was born in 1984. I've played with a typewriter before - like typed a couple of sentences on an old one stored in a backroom at a job once - but know how to actually use the thing? Like go backwards and forwards and space things and all of that? No. Even in elementary school, we took computer class and were learning to type on the Apple IIEs (I've been a Mac girl since kindergarten ).

[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.

[GAC3710]

Originally Posted by MexicanMami0286

yeah, a few things in some lit mags. i've been submitting a lot of work lately. i do a lot of poetry and essays, memoir type things. i also write articles (music, lit reviews, art reviews, etc.)

do you have anything published?

Nothing published as of yet because I have not submitted anything. Currently I am writing 3 books. I have written numerous short stories, songs, poems and I have toyed with script writing. I have not submitted anything because I am trying to build a base of work. I know that when I do submit a book it will ignite like a wildfire and I want to have enough work already in place to not keep the readers waiting. If you are interested in the material we can discuss it in another thread or forum, just let me know where.

Congragulations on being published. Maybe I can read some of your work?

[KatieKate1244]

I was born in 1984, and I'm fluent on typewriters. I had one I used back in high school to write papers with (my parents were too cheap to buy a computer until I was in about the 11th grade). I'd still use it, too, but I don't have anywhere to put in in my dorm room, not to mention all the grief I'd get for how loud it is.

My school still has a few typewriters scattered around in the library, which is reason #4674 that the students like to refer to my school as WVU Low-Tech.

[KSUViolet06]

Yep. I was born in 1984. In middle school, we had only one CPU in the house and my dad used it for work. So my mom bought us a Cannon electronic typewriter (that is actually still in my house somewhere).

Looking back, it was so complicated. Just formatting a paper took forever. If you made a mistake, you had to go back and use that funky correction tape. It wasn't as noisy as other models, but it still made a whole lot of noise.

This just makes me really love my computer alot.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

Sure do! I learned how to type on an electric typewriter while I was in junior high.

Same here, in 7th grade it was a class. Also, when I was in middle school, the DOS based computers still were green screen. (sucko!) My mom has an original Royal that she still uses. She HATES computers with a mad passion. I never really used the typewriter because it was too cumbersome and too girly for me (i was a huge tomboy back in the day)

[ZTAMich]

I loved playing office on our old typewriter. And the thin paper with a water mark was pretty cool too.
Even after we got an electric typewriter my grandfather loved his old manual one. I have a letter he typed to me from 1999 on my ribbon board, which is right above my computer desk!