Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 21, 2023

Yeah, real-time performance! Wow!

Oh Brother, that’s a Royal pain. What an Underwoodhanded trick to play on him.

His density never ceases to amaze me.

Yeah they do have those. The different between that and using a computer is that mistakes on typewriters are more unforgiving. You don’t have handy back spaces you can use to go back and correct, but there’s white out.

Better difference is the old typewriters are not connected to the internet!

At least he has quit hitting ‘Send All’ on his e-mails!

Wait until he tries to hit “send”.

And every sentence has a “ding” at the end… he probably thinks its incoming mail.

He evidently hasn’t tried to plug in a thumb drive yet.

Wish I had room for a typewriter if only for addressing envelopes. It’s a pain to do them on the computer.

Typewriters did have their advantages in word processing.

What’s old is new again.

I was in the small northern California town of Ferndale at an eclectic coffee house. There was an old Royal typewriter on a counter with a blank sheet of paper on the platen. The barista invited me to try my hand at it. Remembering the days when I wrote a novella (unpublished) and numerous short stories (unpublished) on a manual typewriter, I gave it a try.

The “action” was terrible and varied from key-to-key. I marvelled at how strong my fingers must have been in those days to touch-type more than 50 words per minutes on a manual typewriter. It was a very kinesthetic experience, flashing back to when accuracy was paramount and wasting “carbons” was expensive.

I bet he has a landline at home to make sure he doesn’t lose it.

My old Olivetti Underwood was enjoyable to type on.

I’m still a bit heavy fingered on computer keyboard, because I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

Give him an Etch A Sketch. They’re like a tablet, right?

Offline keyboard eh.

What WILL they think of next?! (Also, that explains why I saw Captain Kirk walk by with a clipboard, earlier.)

Oh, those were the days…

I told my cousin that he owned and was using the same model of Royal Standard that they had in the Museum. I didn’t tell him that it was an exhibit there.