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I have a 1929 Remington Portable on display in my "office."

Sometimes my little grandkids want to know what it is, but the minute I insert a piece of paper and put it on a low table, they can type. Doesn't take them long to learn to return the carriage at the end of each line.

posted by Pat_B on January 30, 2013 at 5:32 AM | link to this | reply

I took typing in high school but it was many years after that before I owned one, then the computer came along and it ended up at a thrift store although many years later! sam 

posted by sam444 on January 28, 2013 at 4:48 PM | link to this | reply

It's amazing how much things have changed over the years. Typewriter's are practically extinct and touch typing is super common.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on January 27, 2013 at 9:49 AM | link to this | reply

LOL - the first one I ever used would clack so loudly that people would purposely come up behind and touch me just to see me jump!

posted by adnohr on January 27, 2013 at 5:31 AM | link to this | reply

TAPS

HI’ve been looking up fonts. Many in Word were originated more recently and by Microsoft for web reading. But others are for display love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st

posted by BC-A on January 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM | link to this | reply

So much in this new World, this 21st Century has lost what to us

is barely History. And I find very little interest from younger people as well. My GRam never spoke about her past to me much, but I remember every word that she told me.

posted by Kabu on January 26, 2013 at 2:47 PM | link to this | reply