geekhack
geekhack Community => Reviews => Topic started by: chyros on Fri, 18 December 2015, 16:46:32
-
Think you know old? 8)
-
Per usual, great review. It made me laugh because a lot of your experience was similar to mine when I got a Hermes 2000. Do a Selectric next!
-
I am responding to include my standard typewriter disclaimer: stay away from typewriters Stay far away.
-
Heheheheh, yeah, it's quite a faff xD . Fun gadget though, I want to write the acknowledgements page of my PhD thesis with it ^^ .
-
Doesn't get much more "mechanical" than that! ;D
-
Heheheheh, yeah, it's quite a faff xD . Fun gadget though, I want to write the acknowledgements page of my PhD thesis with it ^^ .
Do it, if small women around the 1940's could use this typewriter with ease then you shouldn't have any problems doing this now.
First used a typewriter back in 1981 which was an IBM selectric and it was a joy to use, especially the return which pushes the paper upwards for the next line of type, still miss it because it gave an instant feel to applying text and numbers upon a page.
You don't get anything when using a PC these days, no feedback whatsoever.
-
Alright, spit it out, chyros... where in the world do you come up with all this stuff you find??
-
Alright, spit it out, chyros... where in the world do you come up with all this stuff you find??
;)
-
Another totally awesome review! Loved the 'commercial' in the beginning too!
-
Despite this being a great video which entertained me quite a lot, you made quite some misconceptions, it is in fact possible (of cause) to use all 10 fingers for typing , a skilled typist could reach up to 100 WPM, sometimes even more.
A popular video of speed typing is showed here:
Also, IBM didn't introduced the single-printing element with their Selectric typewriter(s), in fact, typewriters with single-printing-elements such as type-wheels or cylinders, where intruded to the marked MUCH earlier, the Blickensderfer typewriter for example, which was a fully mechanical typewriter which used a interchangeable type-cylinder, was introduced 1893. Blickensderfer also invented the world's first electric typewriter, the "Blickensderfer electric", which also used the characteristic type-cylinder.
Aaaaaand Remington also didn't came up with the Type-bar system. QWERTY was also not specifically designed for Remington typewriters, but for Type-bar typewriters in general.
-
Yeah, but that dude was strong as an ox, lol. I'm surprised the typewriter didn't break....
-
My grandmother was a secretary and learned in and saw out the age of the manual typewriter in that industry. She was, like the gentleman in the video, a student-athlete in a game that rewards strong hands (Basketball in her case), and could type with all fingers at a significant rate (80 WPM or more) on typewriters that would make this seem like a dream the same way it makes an electric keyboard seem like a dream. She also possessed a fantastic manual typewriter (Sears Forecast-12, a typewriter which you'd swear was plugged in but it wasn't).
I actually own several typewriters; from an ancient Remington beast made of black-enameled iron all the way through a tiny Panasonic which is actually a pen-plotter up to a giant fully-computerized Xerox desktop typesetter which I rescued from the side of the road. It's bizarre, you can essentially turn it on as an electric typewriter, or turn on the computerization along side and compose documents on a small screen, save them to floppy disks, spell-check them, and so forth.