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deruser1973
10 months ago

I haven’t been using it for a long time, it seems to have gone down at some move…

However, if you don’t need any more nowadays, a PC and a printer are much better and in terms of correction a lot more advantageous…

Edit: I actually found the old trunk in the basement today…

0Naya0
9 months ago

I have 9 typewriters at the time, on which I write occasionally.

Especially on my Remington portable 5T, my Hermes 2000 and my Corona 3, I like to write while I like to write on my Mignon 4, for example.

But in itself I do not use my typewriters so often and do not collect them for this reason 🙂

0Naya0
9 months ago
Reply to  JWDHF

Thank you. Jap, nine machines and hopefully over the next few years a few more 🙂

Tichuspieler
8 months ago
Reply to  0Naya0

Nine typewriters? Wow, my envy is sure to you.

0Naya0
8 months ago
Reply to  Tichuspieler

With a little patience and a lot of space you get to nine machines faster than you think:) you have four? What models do you have if I can ask?

0Naya0
8 months ago

Writing? You mean a script typeface? I don’t have that yet:) such a line or drop cap script would be a great thing. They are found in older models (older than 1940) unfortunately only rarely and especially the models have done to me.

What’s wrong with your Atlas? Maybe I can give you a tip, I’m lucky to learn from someone how to revise, repair and maintain typewriters. Depending on what one might try,

Tichuspieler
8 months ago

Once the Olympia Monica, then the Atlas S12 (this can write, but somehow it’s a little pussy. I want to try if the manco can be repaired with a new ribbon), then another Olympia, but the Splendid and last but not least a Triumph Adler Twen T 180.

But I love writing at the Olympia Monica; I love the haptics of this typewriter. On occasion: A great advantage have typewriters compared to a PC: you do not catch a computer virus …;-)

Tichuspieler
8 months ago

I am not quite sure whether I should take answer 1 or just the chosen one. I have four typewriters, two of them are mechanical. I prefer to write on the Olympia Monica (can now also be young to the 60 years).

The “problem” in the selection was for me that I sometimes have phases in which I type (and therefore quite a lot) every day, and then have phases in which I prefer to write with hand and filler (in which then logically quite little).

Neugier4711
10 months ago

It is still in the basement and to be used a new ribbon should be used.

My parents had already changed to an electronic typewriter in the 90s, because there were still improvements in volatility.

As far as technology is concerned, I am very conservative and still use an analog mains telephone and no cell phone, but a mechanical typewriter is nostalgic and hasn’t been up to date for decades.

Commodore64
10 months ago

I use them not only because of the fun, sometimes you have to fill out forms and this is the easiest and most readable with a “right” typewriter. You can easily adjust the position of the fields and type them in.

A computer doesn’t make it so easy, you have to measure and try to hit the fields. Or you can scan the form, use it in PowerPoint as a side background and set text fields. This is only worthwhile for “complicated” forms. If you only have to make name, address and a few crosses, then you can use the typewriter much faster.

Here I sometimes go one step further, then I use an electromechanical Siemens T100 teleprinter. It can be aligned exactly like a typewriter and then you can send the stuff you print in the fields from the PC to the teleprinter via Copy&Paste.

buchi0
9 months ago

What? Finally, the written things are supposed to be somehow in the computer. And write with the machine (or hand) and then scan later and convert so-la-la via OCR isn’t bullshit.

andynymous
10 months ago

… in the basement.

Previously, at the time of the needle printer (the sound fingers of the thousand needle stitches 🙂 or even as replacement cartridges for inkjet printers were still expensive, however, I used them to create the side audio CD, DVD labels on the purpose form labels.

yunaschii
10 months ago

I have never used & not seen in real

AzubiSovielZeit
10 months ago

I’m just too young haha.

tinalisatina
10 months ago

No. You can hang on to nostalgic things, but there are better things to write texts.

Tichuspieler
8 months ago
Reply to  JWDHF

You too? I also tipped my first masterpiece for the waste paper ton on a mechanical typewriter. At the time, I was fixed by the scary-grossing novelist John Sinclair, which, as a teenager, made my wish to be an author.

tinalisatina
10 months ago
Reply to  JWDHF

Yeah, that’s different. But I wouldn’t want to use them anymore.

Tichuspieler
8 months ago

I admire that. So that focuses on working on a project. Even though it may sound strange for you, but there you (and all others who can) have my greatest respect.

I think it’s different: Since I would like to work in entertainment, but not want to earn my money by writing novels (but nevertheless offer manuscripts), I usually write my stories with the hand and filler, rework, then tap my typewriter, rework, then tap my second version, etc.pp.
And only when I’m satisfied, I use a language software (Dragon Naturally speaking) and read the text that is then also transferred to my text processor (Textmaker by Softmaker Office).
Since I offer this version publishers, I already use my text processing for the purpose of standard page adjustment and error correction, which the “Drachen” then causes (he is good, but sometimes he just skins Mumpitz, especially on behalf).

tinalisatina
8 months ago

I wrote my first texts by hand. In mathbooks no longer required.
But I “multiplied” one of my first books with the typewriter. Above all, had the reason that my handwriting is rather one that would go through as independent. Okay, these were poems, so not so much text… 😉