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Offline phototristan

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Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
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Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 22 October 2017, 15:13:37 »
Cool! It is well-known that Tom Hanks is an obsessive collector of type-writers.

There is a Tom Hanks-branded iPad app that mimics a type-writer (as much as an iPad app can... :-þ )
There is also a segment about him in the documentary California Typewriter.
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Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 22 October 2017, 18:36:03 »
bull****..  tom hank didn't write jack..

ghost writer..
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Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 22 October 2017, 19:14:00 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 22 October 2017, 18:36:03
bull****..  tom hank didn't write jack..

ghost writer..

I haven't written jack either. It hasn't kept me from liking keyboards
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Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 22 November 2017, 14:39:59 »
I still use a IBM Wheelwriter 30 Series II (IBM 6787) at work to fill out forms and labels. Its one of the later models with a display and memory. It doesn't hurt that it has a buckling spring keyboard attached to it, which somehow feels a lot better then the ones in Model M keyboards. Much smoother and crisper, similar to Model F buckling springs. Not quite there.

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Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 24 November 2017, 23:49:09 »
That's a cool that the wheelwriter had a bs keyboard.  I know we had a few of these in our high school computer labs, but I never played with them.  Cool to see Mr. Hanks in a similar hobby to our keyboard obsession.  I do wonder what he does use on his computer now--model M, F?  Cherry MX?  Topre?
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