Comments on: Click-click-click … ding!

By: Pat Loisel

Pat Loisel — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:29:12 +0000

After working and getting laid off from several oil companies in the early ’90s, I applied at the state for any job openings they might have, and had to take a typing test. Yes, typing. I flunked it because I couldn’t remember to hit the line return and would type off the edge of the paper before I realized it. Typewriters have never heard of word wrap! Then went to work at a tech school who had thrown all their typewriters away, so all was well.

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:27:21 +0000

Really- our high school had computers??? When we were there???

By: ubikuberalles

ubikuberalles — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:06:38 +0000

I still own a manual typewriter. It’s an Olympia. Back in 2006 and 2007 I did some part time work for may dad and I used the typewriter to print addresses on my father’s old mailing labels. That was great for printing out just one or two mailing labels. If I printed just one on my computer, I’d waste most of a sticky sheet.

You can still get ink ribbons for my typewriter.

2007 was probably the last time I used the manual typewriter. I still keep it, for sentimental reasons (it was a high school graduation present from my dad). Perhaps I could display it on a shelf somewhere…next to one of my Altairs.