[V8] Fw: typewriters

[Les Dane]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Dane" <lesdane at shaw.ca>
To: <diemarthadie at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters


> Speaking of dead formats.....
> I have IBM punch cards, and a cylinder for the keypunch machine.  (I wrote 
> my first programs for a 4K IBM 1401 transistor-based computer.)
> (Les:)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <diemarthadie at aol.com>
> To: <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>; <allanvega at comcast.net>; 
> <superdaveski at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>; <tom199 at todomundo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [V8] typewriters
>
>
>> 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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