[V8] typewriters

Wed Jun 30 10:45:20 PDT 2010

Hahaha.  That was a good joke. phone...

Wait... are you serious?

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Roger Woodbury
<rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>wrote:

> Well its sort of like a telephone attached to the wall by a cord and that
> has a round dial on it.
>
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> Only different.
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>  _____
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> From: allanvega at comcast.net [mailto:allanvega at comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:36 PM
> To: D Morralee
> Cc: tom199 at todomundo.com; rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com; audi fan
> Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters
>
>
>
> So, whats a typewriter anyway? :P
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D Morralee" <superdaveski at hotmail.com>
> To: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com, "audi fan" <v8 at audifans.com>
> Cc: tom199 at todomundo.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:55:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters
>
>
> thanks Roger for the great write up ... the only class I failed in High
> school was typing. But to mark that Poignant event in my life I now have a
> 1942 typewriter sitting in my reading room .
>
>
>
> superdave
>
> > From: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
> > To: v8 at audifans.com
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:02:04 -0400
> > CC: 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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