The quote marks don't work on it, though.
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
LOL.
Or the quote marks are the only keys that still work.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
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.
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
LOL, Robert.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Just goes to show you, no matter what the decade the writer always gets screwed.
Posted by BenM (Member # 8329) on :
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.
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
quote: There's nothing quite like the snap-snap-snap sound of letters being punched out onto a page.
...Except the snap-snap-snap of keys being re-hit over a whiteout strip.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Try the sound it makes when a key breaks on you...
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
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.
