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Looks like a portable...there should be a case with it...oh, I see there is, but it's not pictured...
Y'know, in the early 1980s, before I went into word processing, I bought a series of four or five pretty durable typewriters at the Goodwill, none for more than twenty dollars, most for ten. Before that, my then-brand-new Smith Corona Galaxie portable cost just under one hundred dollars in 1975.
If Cormac McCarthy paid fifty bucks for that typewrite in 1959, he got rooked.
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When I saw that in the news, I got to thinking about my old olivetti and briefly entertained the idea of going out and finding a good old mechanical typewriter again. There's nothing quite like the snap-snap-snap sound of letters being punched out onto a page.
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When I was little I used to love to mash the keys so the hammers would fly at the same time and get jammed up. I would also break open nuts with the x key. (The x just worked best, I don't know why.) Needles to say I convinced my mom to buy a computer, which I could also jam up by mashing the keys.
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