How Will We Manage Now?

[nivrip]

End of an era.


HERE


'Twas a great invention, now consigned to the bin.

 

[alow]

We still have one of these set up and plugged in in one of our hallways here. Even being in my 20s I still used these to do school work in Elementary School.

 

[floppybootstomp]

When I left school I was offered an aprenticeship with Olivetti, to be a typewriter mechanic.

I didn't go for that though, I went for a paper pushing job and ended up using a typewriter daily.

Then 4 years later I went back to a 'mechanical' occupation. I was a confused young man, methinks.

As for typewriters - horrible things, I much prefer using the backspace button to tippex, it's easier to change a printer cartridge than a ribbon and instead of sandwiching several carbon sheets I just click '4' - good riddance, the world moves on, mostly for the better despite the musings of some elder folk

 

[historian]

I used to sell them in a large south London departmental store many,many years ago. The ones I liked were the "Olivetti Lettera 22" and a large Swiss one called,I think "Hermes" Built like a tank but so smooth to use. But selling them didn`t mean that I learned to type. The only time I "type" is when I use the computer key board to write missives like this.... and I enjoy it.
But like you floppy` it`s time to move on ever on.
historian

 

[Urmas]

 

[Urmas]

 

[Urmas]

The ones I liked were the "Olivetti Lettera 22" and a large Swiss one called,I think "Hermes" Built like a tank but so smooth to use.

Finnish Business College Foundation — The Museum Collection of Typewriters and Calculators

Hermes Page

Olivetti Portable Typewriters Page

 

[bootneck02]

THE kING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING