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Title: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: phototristan on Sun, 22 October 2017, 11:10:22
Article/NPR audio news story: http://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/557636219/tom-hanks-is-obsessed-with-typewriters-so-he-wrote-a-book-about-them
Title: Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: Findecanor 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.
Title: Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 22 October 2017, 18:36:03
bull****..  tom hank didn't write jack..

ghost writer..
Title: Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: kurplop 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
Title: Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: Olumin 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.

(https://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-a1x7hg2jgk/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/33767/178263/ibm-6783-lexmark-wheelwriter-30-series-ii-electric-typewrit-1.18__44656.1490258515.jpg?c=2)
Title: Re: Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)
Post by: SamirD 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?