"Ad Agencies" "Hate This One" "Trick!"

Except this ad from big type writer

And no tracking.

You said it!

Yeah but you have to supply ink and align paper. Also no back space is a problem except for one or two expensive models with a white ink.

@@philiplubduck6107that’s why whiteout was invented

No backspace? Many has that. As for the ink….invariably it lasted for ages. Maybe if you’re a deadly serious secretary in a serious business. But for us regular people at home, almost never heard of replacing ink.

@@theOlLineRebel I can't count how many times I had to change ribbons on typewriters. Perhaps you didn't type much. Anyway, new ribbons to fit most models are still available online. I have a re-inker machine, so I can re-ink a ribbon and use it over and over till I wear holes in it.

@@philiplubduck6107 Ribbons don't cost that much. You'd have to buy paper for a printer anyway, if you need hard copies. If you're a good typist, you don't make many errors. If you make an error, there's Wite-Out and correction tape.

Spades, forks, axes, stoves and hurricane lamps and bonfire storylelling is even more relaxed way of living.

@@u2bear377 Yeah I know, but I don't mind working in symbiosis with the Matrix if it doesn't try to kill me every 5 seconds.

You’re just incapable of accepting and adapting to contemporary reality. You’re a weak link.

... said a guy on KZfaq

Oh landlines!!! They were so reliable and they worked even in a power outage!! I miss them too. You forgot cassette tapes and VCRs.

I never grew up around typewriters (late twenties now) but got one, exactly for that purpose. I don’t have a printer and sometimes I need things physically, but don’t feel like going to the library to get it printed.

It was all worth it

If that's something that you still like (because you say you miss it), then why don't you still have it?

@@HelloKittyFanMan I had to leave my home suddenly and not all of my possessions were kept for me.

Oh wow, @@christina_7028, I'm so sorry about that; how sad! I hope you're doing OK!

I don't want to be mean but it's a fad

@varoonnone7159 LOL. No problem. Oh I totally agree 😆

@@varoonnone7159 Unless you don't want ANY chance of someone knowing what you're transcribing, writing, planning...

@@painkillerjones6232 Like uber conspirationists who represent a fraction of the population 🤗

I'm sorry for the loss of your grandfather. My condolences go out to you and your family.

My phone is turned off at 9:00 PM every night. Monday through Thursday it is turned on at 6:00 AM. Friday through Sunday it remains off unless I need to use it.

I decided not to have a cellphone, as I don't want to be available 24/7/365. I like to be totally out of contact at night and any time I take a walk outside or take a ride in my car. My computer is in my home office, so I can leave it alone. It runs 24/7, as it will last longer that way. It's over 12 years old and works perfectly. And it keeps up with new software fine.

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 when I retire, I'm getting a landline and a flip phone. I live in rural America so having a phone in case of emergency is smart, I just don't need it to be a smart phone.

Good idea. I don't have a phone, so I guess that's why I'm always good? Dunno.

My sound stays off. I only turn on my phone when family is out, that way of they need to call they can. I keep my phone on cause they're gaming apps I use that pay money. One such app I get a $5 Amazon gift card from which goes to Amazon account and my husband is legally disabled, so we get half off on Prime. Which our due date comes, Amazon withdrawls from the gift card balance. So instead of us paying the half-off $7.99 for Prime, we pay less than $3.00 a month. My husband has a laptop that he plays games on and doesn't stay connected to the internet.

It depends but even if its not most effective way i think that's not the point. Personally i believe people are slowly fed up with all this "smart" technology, constantly being accessible, signed and subscribed an connected even for efin kitchen sink and we will see renaissance of "dumb" offline old-school technologies and people going "off the grid" so the speak by limiting they internet access. i found my old Nokia 3310 that indestructible beast is still working and when i think about it it has anything that i need the only "real" thing that new smartphone is giving me are games when iam waiting somewhere sometimes maps everything else can wait when i come home and boot pc and frankly i don't even read mails on phone i just refuse be 24/7 in touch and working or dealing with issues directly or indirectly i have me time and my physical and mental health is better then ever.

Legible text on a page, no electricity required.

@@alyssa7867unless it’s an IBM Selectric.

My PC takes like 15 seconds to boot and I can get into word within the same minute. I think that’s most people’s experience now and will be the case more and more every year (due to higher prevalence in SSDs)

I doubt there's even one recorded instance of an electric typewriter crashing upon startup.

I recall reading somewhere you can actually get some clues about what someone was typing from the ink strip in the typewriter! It’s actually pretty fascinating. Mix this with analyzing the wear patterns on the keys, advanced modern imaging tech, and some other fun stuff you can figure what they were writing. If you have a document you can figure out exactly what type writer wrote it and recover deleted or obstructed text. This isn’t “hacking” in the traditional sense but it has some remarkable similarities

@@BitTheByte truth.

How did that cure you? I thought dyslexia was about reading comprehension.

​@@silversilk8438Dyslexia isn't about comprehension. It's a glitch in the brain about processing the letters you're seeing. There are other disorders that affect reading comprehension, such as hyperlexia.

Former tutor here for children that fall under the dyslexic umbrella (which also includes dyscalculia and dysgraphia). A glitch in the brain is a good explanation. It is a disconnect between what is seen or heard and what is communicated in some form. People who fall under this umbrella tend to struggle with focus, energy control, communication in any form, processing, space awareness, and so on. Not all people under this umbrella are the same. People under this umbrella tend to have above average IQs, are artists, thinkers, and so on. More people fall under this umbrella than people who are "normal". Tactile objects, such as a typewriter, are tremendously helpful for all ranges of learning and comprehension. At younger ages, a break from learning every 20 minutes is a fabulous stress reducer. Dyslexics tend to do better with pictorial languages, reading is best started at age 10 (but not always)...with proper guidance they will catch up to their peers in a handful of weeks, starting too soon can cause a myriad of blocks that then need to be remolded, which in turn causes a delay in learning that is followed by unnecessary struggles. The dyslexic umbrella is hereditary and is almost not ever diagnosed unless it appears in academics. A person can have every symptom of this condition and not ever know why they do certain things because it didn't show up during the school years, if they were sent to school (versus home education)...and even then it could have been dismissed as something else. Dyslexia is greatly unsupported in all circles, including education, it has barely been noticed and acknowledged, even today, despite that a few specialized schools exist, or have existed. Even though it has gained recognition, it still doesn't receive the support that other learning conditions receive. Dyslexia used to be called word-blindness. Famous dyslexics include Whoppi Goldberg, Orlando Bloom, Albert Einstein, Jay Leno, Henry Winkler, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Carl Jung, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mohammad Ali.

Why was typing so different for you as compared with writing?

@@vegastrina Thanks for the explanation. How did they diagnose ol' Leonardo with dyslexia? (I ask it more as a rhetorical joke. I think he wrote his journals from left to write mirrored but... I don't think that's dyslexia.)

Ahh... The Good 'ol Days. 🙂👍

@@bmaxdlux3169 Yes, I often think about the _Good ol' Days_ -- and how much they truly *SUCKED*.

Don't forget the thesaurus 😊

Ohhh...those fancy IBM Selectrics were the "Cadillac" of typewriters, back in the day. With the changeable "ball," and the ability to switch between Pica and Elite. Some of them must have had a memory buffer, and a very fast typist could finish typing, and the ball would continue for a few more keystrokes (that was magical).

You still could hook up the selectric computer and browsw an ssh server or chat in an irc server.

i'm looking for an old phone like this because i'm sick of smart phones and the internet

@@ivegotlungfoot6890 I got the Sunbeam Pro! It's awesome. But expensive.

i miss my slide out keyboard phone. texting on a flip phone was faster and i could do it one handed without looking while driving and shifting gears no problem. 🍻

Your comment is right on target! Even smartphones could not help in case of an immediate emergency.

Been there done that too - my first Secretary position was for my excellence in typing speed and accuracy. A wonderful skill of memory and fingers.

@@suev3339 . . .the sound of the key strike and the carriage return was magical for me. I am still a fast typist. . .using one finger now on my iPad 🫣. When that cable show Mad Men came out, it took me right back to when I wore stockings, sling backs, and a dress every day to the office where people smoked, drank at lunch. . .and I had to address them as Mr.. . .🤔 The good old days -when you could not fake skills. Hope you’re doing well.

Nice memory😊

My older sister was just like you! She retired from a International Law firm in D.C. a few years ago and did quite well in life. I never got the hang of shorthand, but did type for a living and always hated it. lol

Were the Bergdorf envelopes light purple? Did they use high quality stationery? In my imagination, I see the BG invitations being quite lovely in that day💜.

🤓

Could you explain?

Is it the same way as taking notes on paper versus on computer? But I thought writing the words out by hand is better than pressing non-distinct buttons… so is it just the feeling of permanence?

@@ButWhyMe... Quick example when working on a manual typewriter, you need to be very conscious of what you are typing, no spell checker only yourself and a dictionary, one mistake, I have made a few whilst typing this reply to you lovely, isn't just a quick backspace and type again It is a painstaking process of rolling the paper feed, ensuring you count correctly the number of times you roll the paper back, to enable you to white out the mistake, make sure that it is dry and then get back to the line and in line with the one you were originally typing. I sincerely hope I explained and really haven't put you off trying a manual typewriter, I had an exercise in typing class one day, using different characters made a picture a lady in a crinoline dress, following a pattern supplied by my fab teacher, it did take a lot of concentration, however not being talented at art, I was able to create something in a medium that I was nearly competent in;-) Please give it a go, there are some amazing machines out there and they are a pleasure to use, Best wishes

@@ButWhyMe... It's actually hard to press the keys down...way harder than a computer keyboard. It really exercises the wrists and fingers. It's loud, in a good way. It is a challenge to get "fast" at typing on it. You have to push the keys really far down, not just a small distance, like with a computer keyboard.....like 3/4th an inch versus an 8th of an inch on a modern keyboard, depending on the machine. You can see the inner workings...watch the keys strike the paper and see the ink ribbon advance with each strike, unlike a computer where you have no idea what's going on inside. There is no spell-check. There is no backspace over a letter...once you type it, it's on the paper permanently unless you use correction tape, White-Out, or a special eraser.

I learned to type on a manual that is nonelectric. I learned to love slamming the keys. I still find it funny that I scored low on speed tests because I was typing so fast the parts that strike the paper got stuck to each other. Being too fast made me too slow.

@@alienonion4636 That's why the letters are arranged as they are on a standard keyboard. It keeps the hammers further apart for the most used letters.

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 yes, I learned that along with typing in HS...1969 😁

Remember shorthand? Loved it!

Those are the best kind😊

Why are you telling us you're a male?

@@littleripper312 “I am what I am and that’s what I am” said Popeye the sailor man.

​@@littleripper312 because it's important within context. Typists were still mostly women even back then

Cool trivia. Troy Aikman won the Oklahoma State High School typing championship in 1983.

@@jungleno.Booya!

I got mine for free when a neighbor was moving and didn’t want to take it with him. If I could find a tape for it, I’d be a lot happier.

I have a Y2K compliant toaster too, and a bird feeder and... Millennium bug! (snort)

You know you're old when you casually reference Y2k like it was a few years ago. Can someone pass me the fiber? My muscle rub hasn't absorbed in yet...

@@connormclernon26try eBay, there are plenty of sellers who specialize in ink cartridges for a variety of typewriter models.

@@connormclernon26 Check with office supplies dealers for new ribbons, copy paper and correction fluid. Depending on security some government agencies overseas are still using non-digital equipment to avoid hackers. All else fails try to find a video on re-inking your ribbon and go from there.

Lol .. mine was always "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

@@deckiepoofor some reason mine was always “I will always be the king.” It wasn’t a statement of any kind. I think maybe it’s the distribution of those letters on the keyboard combined with my typing ability at the time when I first wrote it. The quick brown fox was just too much. Purely associative, I think, and it stuck with me for years whenever I saw a keyboard.

@@wellesradio ...😁 I understand.

very cute.

Good news for the Scranton branch. They need to start selling ink ribbons now though. Two forms of single use media to operate.. Much convenience, many improvement. Totally not just trolls trying to make annoying noise as much as possible, and claiming arguable other reasons for the activity.

I can't argue with you there. MP3 players are still cool, though.

@@alyssa7867 You haven't lived until you've rewound a cassette tape with a pencil. 😏

@@user-hk6mt4uo4p Been there. Done that. I even spiced broken cassettes with scotch tape.

But how are the corporate overlords going to insert popup ads on a typewriter??? NOOOOOOOOOO!!! 😫

Your so right. You know, I just felt like I needed to ask, are you 100 percent sure that when you die you will go to heaven? I don’t usually comment like this, but your comment just stood out to me so much.

The things americans do in order to just don't learning writing in cursive

@@diegomenezes8838 yes, you have a point.

Oh the trees

What makes it worthwhile? -nothing

Wow! That brought back a distant memory. The first typewriter I was assigned as a junior shorthand typist at a charted accountants was an Underwood. End of year accounts having to use black then red carbon paper.

We had one in the family. Heavy item!

eBay is a great place to get tapes (ink) and replacement parts for old typewriters. And there are a surprising number of typewriter-repair shops in the U.S. which sell the replacement tapes, etc.

Go for it. Tom hanks has a collection if typerwriters. I dont think it as odd ayou might think.

You're NOT (the only one). I go to Hobby Lobby, & just touch rulers, erasers, protractors, pens & pencils, anything physical that I used to use in the 70's & 80's when I was in school.

Thank you so much for this info! I never thought to look there. (duh on my part!)​@@CricketsBay

Could be a good stock tip.

The last typewriter my dad owned (1990s) already had a backspace button.

That was invented and marketed by that Monkees guy (Nesmith)'s mother. He, in turn, wrote "Different Drum," a major hit for Linda Ronstadt. Talented family.

I had a tendency to be too heavy handed with the liquid; loved the tape (retype to erase). I was so thrilled when I got to use a newer typewriter that had the corrective tape cartridge!

I thought we just called that "white out?" Also, I really wanna make a William S. Burroughs joke.

How did the class keep you out of Vietnam?

@@SockTaters I was a 6821 Weather ops.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." One of a few sentences which when typed uses every alphabet key on a typewriter or keyboard. But you already knew that.

You're a coward.

You're a coward.

That is exactly the reason why the letters on a typewriter aren't in alphabetical order. They changed it so the letters you often use together are far away from each other. That way the key tangeling happens less often.

A Hazzard that went with the machine. You must acquire the proper rhythm.

​@@Alinor24 For anyone who's curious the most common letters to tangle before the introduction of QWERTY were t and h! T was directly below h so hitting them in succession could halt a typist in their tracks (and just look at how many times in this message alone I've typed "th")

If that's something that you still like (because you say you miss it), then why don't you still have it?

​@@Alinor24: No it's not, that myth turned up to be false. There is a video of that goes into that whole thing.

Southern Lizzy Boy

You should be happy when everybody goes back to being tarzans

Amazing... how did you manage to get KZfaq to load on your typewriter?

@@Someone-tn8ur it’s very easy, set your tablet on the space where the paper goes.

@@christinareynolds8179 Ah, so smart :)

I'm so jealous!!😊

In typing class I was never able to get up to 60 words per minute, but the ones I could type the fastest on were the ones (perhaps like your mom's) which had the VERY short return lever and required raising the carriage to type capital letters. Whenever someone needed a typewriter elsewhere, they seemed to grab the one on my desk, so I had about every type available in the class---except for the electrics, which were very new (this was before the IBM Selectric) and in the back room, available for use only after we had finished our assignments. Olympias were generally considered the best---luxurious even. There were "silent" typewriters, but they were uncommon. My brother advised me to get a typewriter -*-without-*- letters on the keys, so I would HAVE to learn where they were. There was a key chart at the front of the class. A few years later, when I was at junior college, the JC decided to replace all its office typewriters and decided to do it with Olympias, which were one third the cost of IBM Selectrics. As for not being able to make corrections, that isn't so. One could use an erasing shield to get rid of a mistake, although care was necessary. The pencil-shaped erasers had a stiff brush at the other end, to clean the type, which becomes gunked up with continued use. Oh, and back in typewriter days, very few men could touch-type-- that was "women's work." If you see reporters typing in old movies, they are ususally "hunt-and-peck" typists. It would have been a great idea to learn shorthand also, but I didn't understand what a help it would have been in college, and no one gave me that advice. Again, that was "womens' work." I do not understand the method court reporters use, but it is/was very fact compared to conventional typing.

Disregard the strike-out type--the strike-out was added by the Internet gods.

Still have mom’s pink manual from the ‘50s, and my sister’s blue electric from the ‘70s. I loved them. Boy did I have fun just playing with them back then.

My mom had a 1940’s vintage Underwood. My most vivid memory of it was when I used it to write a fake absentee excuse letter to cover my playing hooky. 😊 Wish I still had it, don’t know what ever happened to it.

Did you pass? That's awesome

@@supers0nic77 sure did. 1st time.

@@tomoth77 Are you done typing it yet?

@@DG-kr8pt long gone is my selectric. I now type on a laptop.

same!

When I was looking for a job my wife would type my resumes. She got tired after about the sixth one so she gave me her high school typing book and said have at it. I didn't have a job, had lots of time, so I started on page one and worked my way through the book. Like you I have used what I learned for decades to type my work reports. I am retired but still do contract work typing my reports and emailing them when complete. I don't think I would ever go back to a typewriter because I make to many mistakes and the backspace key is my best friend.

Same, but I could only type 45 wpm.

Mine still do. I went to High School here in Australia in the early 1980s, and was one of the few boys to take typing class. Flash forward a few years and personal computers were starting to become a thing and, suddenly, typing was very important to both males and females. I continued to use a typewriter, first manual and then electronic, until I went shopping to buy a new cartridge and found out they weren't being sold anymore (I was behind the times with CDs and DVDs as well). So that was the end of my typewriter life, but I kind of still do miss it.

When I was 13, my mother made me take typing lessons during the summer. This was back in the days when "real" guys didn't type. (That was for women to do.) I learned and kept the QWERTY habit through my whole career, from manual to electric typewriters to mainframes to laptops. Thanks Mom!!

Someone recently asked me how a blind person could possibly type on a computer keyboard. My stunned response was "Who looks at the keyboard when typing?" They were astounded to find out that you really could not look at typewriter keys and have any speed, because you were reading what was supposed to be written. Many times what you were reading was terrible handwriting. So yes, I use those skills too, and now that person is trying to learn how to type without looking at the keyboard.

@@ohana8535 When I took typing, there came a time when the teacher replaced all the keys with blank keys.

Back in 8th grade in the mid 1960s, when I was choosing courses for high school, my father looked at the list of courses and told me that of all the courses listed, typing was the only one I'd ever really use. This was way before computers. I took two years of typing. My last job before retirement was typing on a computer. I did that job for 18 years, so my father was correct.

Same here! It got me my first job as well as my second and third before I got my career going which did not require typing. Twenty-five years later computers debuted and my muscle memory kicked right in while nearly everyone else struggled to hunt and peck.

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 Exactly.

Now people will have to learn how to spell as there is no auto-correct on typewriters.

... just like every computer keyboard on Earth.

Disable autocorrect. Switch off Wi-Fi / disconnect the patchcord. Uninstall Solitaire and Mahjongg. Voila.

​@u2bear377 you could even find a keyboard that is a good simulation of the old kind.(I think. I'll check that now because I'm rather curious)

@@dragonsword7370 There's mechanical keyboards which are tactile and pleasing to use as they click pretty solidly.

Hardcover books are so nice. I typically go for them over paperbacks when I can afford it (which is unfortunately not often, since a book series will cost 2-3x more as hardcovers). Hardcovers aren’t as portable as paperbacks, but for me they totally make up for it in their durability. Glued bindings (what paperbacks are made with) fall apart so much faster than the hardcover’s sewn binding. I’ve got one book that I bought used, that has the pages completely separated from the spine. It’s only still together because of the sewn binding (cover is attached via glue on the front and last page).

​@@thatonepossum5766you're getting sewing in your hardbacks? Most of my hardbacks are glued.

In college, I used to furiously wave my hand in front of my computer, then copy my friend file, change a few words/fonts, and submit it. Could do it all in 40 minutes, depending on how quick I finished.

Liquid paper never dried. Lol

And if you didn't have carbon paper, there was no way out: you had to type it twice.

LOL. So familiar! My brother and I roomed together in college in ‘79-80 and it was a very familiar thing… the typewriter being pounded furiously in the middle of the night, hours before a morning class when a paper was due.

Or the type eraser. I had typing and bookkeeping course and we were able to back space, erase, use the brush end of the eraser to clear the page and correct our mistake. Realigning was a hassle, but no, any mistakes did not have to be permanent.

Strangely enough I have used correction tape on some word processors, but just after I was interviewed I was made aware of manual correction tape by my English Teacher, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s hard as heck to get ink off Also, you CAN use white out if you never want to load the document in the typewriter again

@@MaxSolar-dd5wq the tip is to use the whiteout while the paper is in the typewriter

@@MarthaM4858 That works in some circumstances, but sometimes you might miss an error until the paper is removed. Now that I think of it, the white tape actually could work pretty well, but still, the difficulty in editing what you write that makes the typewriter special, because if you want your document “perfect” you need to be careful

@@MaxSolar-dd5wq I got my first typewriter as a high school graduation gift from my parents in 1976. I still have it so I know the ends and outs of using a typewriter. Besides if I make a big enough mistake that I can use correction tape or whiteout one I just put in a new page and start over.

Spel cheking and autoekorrect hadnt make mee dumer!

@@unoriginalname4321 👍

Interesting counterpoint: I was a terrible speller as a kid, and relied heavily on spellcheck in Microsoft Word. I remember at the time thinking that I'd never learn to spell since I could just let the computer do the work for me. However, what ended up happening was every time a word was misspelled, since I had to click and and select the correct spelling, that _taught_ me how to spell all the words I didn't know. It was the equivalent of instant feedback from the teacher while the word was fresh in my head and I was primed to learn about it. The key factor there, though, may be that I grew up with early versions of spellcheck that made the user manually review what was wrong. This is different from autocorrect, which is constantly whirring away in the background and correcting things that users may often not even notice.

@@NoName-ik2du 👍. Good information for an old goat like me. Thanks for the reply. PS. Just a side note. Kids and grown ups today can easily find information and how to do things on near anything with the press of a few buttons. Us Boomers didn't have that. There is good and bad in everything, but I really think there is more good than bad with the Internet. .

@@DD-uf2uo Right, but the quality is often less. Back then our "internet" was the public library.

I also think there is value in them learning the old ways of doing research before the advent of the search engine.

@@mwatercress They will never know what searching through a card catalog at the library was like. :)

@@dfirth224 Or figuring out what books to look in the index for a deeper dive.

No! We older folks are going to need some way to secretly communicate. Kind of like Morse Code for our generation.

My mother has a typewriter that types in cursive.

@johnvanderploeg6707 bad news: I taught myself cursive and I'm 23

@@FourOf92000😂 made my day

As someone born in the early 90s, the only time I have ever needed cursive is my signature. This amount of usage is in a world designed by boomers, the ones that love to shout "They don't know cursive." Have you thought about why we don't focus on cursive any more as something to teach? Because its obsolete, it will survive as a niche hobby and may see a revival in interest someday, but for now the exact people that claim kids don't know it are the exact same people that designed a world where its useless.

if it caught on, there would be ads. Marketers follow eyeballs.

@@DG-kr8pt how would they put ads on a typewriter? It’s non-electric. Stickers attached to the machine? 😅

@@thatonepossum5766 Yes exactly. Branded typewriters, but if they were to do so now, would probably just be beard oils, deodorant, and beanies.

@@thatonepossum5766 They would end up like printers where you have to buy branded ink and require an internet connection to use.

He’s also a creep

@@mightytaiger3000 How so?

Wonder if he used it on Epsteins island

@@Ryan-wx1bi Was he on a flight roster?

@@mightytaiger3000 Elaborate please.

As a trained typist, I struggled with word processing software (early 1990s) until I tried WordPerfect. The genius of that program was that the screen looked like a page! Made for a much easier transition to computers.

@@MaryHughes-ko4fj I remember in the 80's using a word processor called Easyscript, and that being for the Commodore 64. There was another one as well but I forget the name, and we would print it out at school. We also learned to type on the old Manual ones like above in the video and they had Electric and Electronic ones which were even better as you could fix errors.

​@@steviebboy69 I grew up using one of the electric powered models when I was around 10 to 13 years old. It was neat and filled the role it did for school papers, in the late '90's.

I've just commented on the same Brother electric typewriter I had at uni lol😂

Oddly enough, a device like you describe does exist, besides the typewriter. It’s called Freewrite. Has an e-ink screen, can only do word processing, and syncs your documents automatically to a computer for later editing. They’re expensive, but so were typewriters back in the day.

Absolutely. you could.

Why can't you run it from an electric outlet?

@@Highly-censored off grid home

Why not just plug it in?

Did she mean food, or the band?

@@gregb6469 There's a band called bread?

No internet spying at all, also no malware.

@@Astrofrankno of ads either lol

And no hackers

There are micro-particles in the paper and the ink that are used by the feds to discover your general location. The micro-particles' patterns, colors and shapes and orientations tell them in which state and by which company were the paper and ink manufactured and to which retailer were sold.

True. Documents produced by manual typewriters are hacker proof. No small thing in this world of 24/7 surveillance.

....and it gives me great hope that young ones HAVE noticed AND are enjoying what it feels like to be ONE WITH YOUR WORK !!!

We still used them in the 90's in some squadron. I think CBPO slowly switched over to computer in the 80's. I got out in '99, & they were a dying breed.

@@DecrepitBiden I separated from the Air Force two decades before you did. The only computers the Air Force had were IBM mainframes at that time.

And thats a good thing. You must read a lot of news articles, and thats a good thing.