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Post your typewriter pics and just discuss typewriters in general!i'm not even sure if this is the right board, but w/e
Anyway, just acquired this gem recently, a 1930s era Underwood Champion Portable.
oh fuck it's a pic for ants lemme fix that
>>8205003
how long did it take you to adapt from typing with a computer keyboard to typing equally fast with those small round keys? they seem like a pain in the ass to hit
What a thread.
shameless self bump
Is there nobody interested in these glorious pieces of engineering cleverness?
Aww.
>>8204994
Where do you get ribbons?
this is like a thread on /g/ about people posting their flip phones
actually using a typewriter today is just weird fetishism
>>8205316
I don't know. There's some interesting discipline in not being able to cut and paste or make universal find/replaces. And no spelling correction! Type writing offers a thoughtless spontaneity that word processing can't imitate.
>>8205272
Amazon/Ebay/ the typewriter shop which i am very lucky to have just down the road (Sorry if my syntax is shit, the English language is fucking stupid)
>>8205003
Still got my great grandfather's typewriter. It's damn near impossible to find ribbons for it.
Used to use it for school.
Love the way there is no correction other than "X"ing a word out or using white-out.
It weighs like 30-40 pounds with it's wooden carrying case...
>pic not related -- just a funny typewriter scene from Naked Lunch.
>>8205519
I agree. Gives permanency to what you write. I posted a thread like this the other day and you counts did was shitpost in it.
