Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 26, 2019

gracious

I can’t remember the last time I saw a typewriter

Electric typewriter, yeah that’s a little bit faster for Woodstock, he wasn’t expecting that.

I’d hate to see him use a word processor.

Is it one of the IBM’s Selectric with all the letters in a rotating “golf” ball?

“With my pen and my electric typewriter—” Elvis Costello.

In the final frame, Woodstock grew! Must’ve been because of the electric typewriter!

Give him a couple of weeks, Snoopy, and he’ll be typing like a pro!

Once Woodstock gets used to the light touch of the electric, and NOT having the throw the carriage back at the end of every line, he’ll be fine. If he’s lucky, he might even have a model with auto back spacing to do auto-corrections. Moving from a manual to an electric can easily double your typing speed.

Manual typewriters still work when the power goes out.

Learned on an IBM Selectric II (non-correcting), using Elite and Pica to learn spacing on business and personal letters. I still have it ingrained that it’s 13 returns for a letter with no letterhead, and 15 for a business letter on letterhead. ;-)

There was a study that found that the average typist gained two pounds of weight in the year following their switching from a manual typewriter to an electric one.

Had to be really careful about resting fingers on the keys

What’s a typewriter?

Don’t stand too close to that thing, you could get hurt bad! ;o]

Wait until they invent PCs.

I loved my typewriter! Ooooh the good ole days….

Andy Rooney.

Wonder how Woodstock does with word processing?

and the kids reading this are googling electric typewriter

It’ll get better when they invent the word processor…