[V8] typewriters

Wed Jun 30 15:08:14 PDT 2010

That one plays 78s too :)
I need one that will play my Edison diamond discs and Pathe recordings 
still though.  Love to find a wax player.
I've already got the 8-track, Digital Compact Cassette, Reel-to-Reel, 
Digital Audio Tape and Minidisc decks set up...

Yes, I'm a bit mental.  I've built a museum for dead formats.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
To: diemarthadie at aol.com; allanvega at comcast.net; 
superdaveski at hotmail.com
Cc: v8 at audifans.com; tom199 at todomundo.com
Sent: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 3:10 pm
Subject: RE: [V8] typewriters

You mean the one that plays the 78rpm discs, or the one that plays the 
wax
cylinders?

-----Original Message-----
From: diemarthadie at aol.com [mailto:diemarthadie at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:59 PM
To: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com; allanvega at comcast.net;
superdaveski at hotmail.com
Cc: v8 at audifans.com; tom199 at todomundo.com
Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters

I keep mine next to my record player.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
To: allanvega at comcast.net; 'D Morralee' <superdaveski at hotmail.com>
Cc: 'audi fan' <v8 at audifans.com>; tom199 at todomundo.com
Sent: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters

Well its sort of like a telephone attached to the wall by a cord and
that
has a round dial on it.

Only different.

  _____

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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