Typewriters

[grampahol]

She edits court reporter transcripts so she doesn't have to type the entire words.. Actually I don't really know.. But she's darn fast.. The only real point I was getting at is that those old manuals are becoming big time collectors items and there's a lot of people who want to go back to writing or typing directly on real paper. Anyone ever change the ribbon on an old manual? It's not particularly hard to do, but it does take some practice..  You gotta learn how to listen for the bell towards the end of a line and hit the carriage return to start a new line.. I always liked the ratcheting clicking noise when you put in a fresh sheet of paper. A well adjusted machine, especially high end typewriters have a definite snappy feel to them way moreso than a computer or even an electric or cheap manual.. We had an old Olympic manual that came directly from a newspaper office.. Great old machine.. 
I remember whiteout too as well as the whiteout tape you could hold over your mistakes and it would fill in the impression of letters. Great stuff if it was new and fresh. My sister was a really fast typist too. It would be like shes talking into a tape recorder playing it back at double speed while I was taping myself and playing it back at half speed.. Anyone remember turning an old vinyl record with your finger really slow then speeding it way up? LOL The joys of old technology when we were kids.. Spelling hell upside down on your mom or dads first old electronic calculator! 7734 if you've never tried..