[V8] typewriters

[Roger Woodbury]

Yup.  I use MS Word or Outlook for everything, and I found out how to
address envelopes in all their various forms some time ago.  Now if I could
just figure out how to remember to load the envelopes before I hit "print",
I'd be perfect.

Maybe I could teach one of the cats to load the envelopes for me.  

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: kneale at coslink.net [mailto:kneale at coslink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:07 AM
To: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com; v8 at audifans.com; tom199 at todomundo.com
Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters

My relatively rural community's high school typing room only had manuals. 
Yer message reminded me the laptop that's now my main access to everything
in the world and typed stuff too (when attached to my printer) has no
numbers pad.

Have you learned to address envelopes with the computer/printer yet?  I
still have to scrawl addresses.

Original Message:
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From: Roger Woodbury rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:02:04 -0400
To: v8 at audifans.com, tom199 at todomundo.com
Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters


Made me laugh...IBM Selectric, indeed!

Way back around the dawn of time I was required to take a typing course in
highschool, too.  In those days the typewriters were all manual typewriters
except for six that were in the front of the classrooms and strictly
reserved for those students planning on going to business colleges.  They
were all females, naturally.

Well, one day one of them was ill, and I decided that I wanted to try one of
those new electric machines. There were two IBM electrics....the ones that
had the letters on a removable/exchangeable ball that bounced around, and
four Royals that were just plain typewriters that worked by electricity.
Naturally, I sat before one of the jewels in the crown, and IBM.

I got about half way through the class before Miss Connelly saw that I, a
mere male, was sitting at an IBM, and banished me to one of the Royals!
There I sat through the rest of the year...yeah:  for college prep the
course went a full year, and you got to learn all the other cool stuff about
typing...like addressing envelopes, making lists, etc, etc, etc.

At the end of the first quarter we had learned the basics of typing, and had
to pass a typing proficiency (speed) test. Like Tom, I too scored 130.  Got
an A for that quarter.

The next quarter was typing forms and letters.  That was sort of OK, because
although the typing examples were to Joe Blow at Acme Eraser Company in
Independence, Indiana (note:  NO zip codes mind you! Hadn't been invented
yet.), I always made up my own companies, individuals, addresses and so
forth based on places that I wished that I was, rather than sitting in the
dumb and dumber typing class.  Got a B that second quarter.

For Christmas that year, I got a used Smith Corona manual portable. It
weighed about three tons, but it carried me all the way through college and
graduate school.  I was typing all my homework for high school then, too.
My handwriting, never great, was hardly legible, so I just used the
typewriter.  I don't remember what we studied in the third quarter.  Got a
C.

Forth quarter is long ago lost in the fog of failing memory.  That was
probably devoted to studying numbers.  I still to this day can't type
numbers without looking at the keyboard, but I still try to type numbers off
the top row of the computer keyboard rather than the keypad.  We never
covered "key pad" in high school.  Got a D that last quarter.

But I can type these little diatribes to you folks to read, so I guess Miss
Connelly can rest in her grave. The time she let me steal on that Royal
electric typewriter wasn't totally wasted after all.

Roger

P.S.  Oh, yeah.  When I bought my first insurance business in 1978, the
first thing I did was trade in the three old fashioned black manual
typewriters for IBM Selectrics.  Those machines had the bouncing balls too.
Then a couple of years later they were traded in on Correcting Selectric
III's one of which still is here at home, sitting upstairs in the loft of
the garage.  It was my own personal machine which I kept when I sold the
business.  I wonder if it still works.  No bouncing ball in that one,
though. That once was nearly space age and had some sort of memory.  It's
only about four years older than my Audi V8.  (Mandatory Audi content,
there!)

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