RIP: Typewriter!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20406546

A typewriter, which its makers say is the last to be built in the UK, has been produced at a north Wales factory.
Manufacturer Brother, which says it has made 5.9 million typewriters since its factory in Wrexham opened in 1985, has donated the last machine to London's Science Museum.
The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".

I haven't seen one for years, I bet that many of the younger posters have never seen one!

Run_to_da_hills

Good riddance.

Conall Cernach

I saw a report on the BBC this morning about that. The guy from Brothers said that he thought the legal profession still used them to make multiple copies. Anyone know what that's about? I would have thought a pc with a word processor would be much easier to print off multiple copies from.

davet82

Whats a typewriter?

charlemont

Ah the days of trying to make fake ID's with a typewriter, plastic and an iron..

Hannibal Smith

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I saw a report on the BBC this morning about that. The guy from Brothers said that he thought the legal profession still used them to make multiple copies. Anyone know what that's about? I would have thought a pc with a word processor would be much easier to print off multiple copies from.

There are a lot of legal firms who still use them for form filling. most of the forms you can now download and fill in on the computer...but some offices haven't brought themselves up to date. there are still offices that use them for filling in requisitions on title using carbon paper for duplication...but they're in the minority now thankfully.

I did a secretarial course in the 90s and we were taught on typewriters to stop people cheating by changing their mistakes on the computer

starlit

I have seen a good number of them and have used them. First learnt how to type on one! I'm in my 20's! No biggy!:cool:

super_furry

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Good riddance.

Jaysus, don't tell me that typewriters were a Masonic plot to help enslave mankind as well?

JohnMarston

My Dad used to own one, he used to let me type things for him before we had PCs in our school. Eventually the mechanism broke inside.
A few of my Dads older friends still use them to type documents. One of them is Scottish, hence reminding me of this:

Punch the keys for god sake!

john_cappa

I remember we got one in 1989/1990.

Banged away on it for a few weeks till the ink ribbon rang out. Noisy ****er. No wonder my mother kept telling me the shop had none left!!

Jumblon

Ding!

john_cappa

I remember when the ink started to go you nearly had to punch the keys to get the letter to show.

Blood was drawn.

I would have thought that's a word processor in the video, not a type-writer.

Agent Smith

Please Stand for the Typewriter Anthem....

Immaculate Pasta

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Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I would have thought that's a word processor in the video, not a type-writer.

Most typewriters made in the past 30 years or so have been electronic, they have a small text display that shows one (or two) line of text that you can read before typing onto the paper.

The purely mechanical ones are long gone (in this part of the world anyway).

OneArt

My parents had a typewriter once. Had great craic slamming away on it (before I even knew how to write).

Then they introduced me to Windows 3.1 and I never looked back.

Stinicker

Deleted User wrote: »

Most typewriters made in the past 30 years or so have been electronic, they have a small text display that shows one (or two) line of text that you can read before typing onto the paper.

The purely mechanical ones are long gone (in this part of the world anyway).

I had a kids manual typewriter as a child from "Petite", moved up to a larger typewriter at about 7 or 8 and then a V-Tech Kids laptop with a HP printer.

Manual typewriters were a nuisance the amount of force they took.

mark renton

OneArt wrote: »

Then they introduced me to Windows 3.1 and I never looked back.

Should also be added to the museum...

JohnMarston

john47832 wrote: »

Should also be added to the museum...

Indiana Jones and the lost software

Dub.

They will come back into fashion someday, some of the older manual machines are like works of art.

I still have two of them, a tiny Hermes Baby made in Switzerland , and a french made Rooy that folds up flat like a laptop.

kowloon

Dub. wrote: »

They will come back into fashion someday, some of the older manual machines are like works of art.

I still have two of them, a tiny Hermes Baby made in Switzerland , and a french made Rooy that folds up flat like a laptop.

They already have, some of the hipster types are buying them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9398975/Why-a-typewriter-is-the-ultimate-hipster-accessory.html

marketty

Tom Hanks will be crushed

Czarcasm

I've been in plenty of offices where the dot matrix printer is still in daily use, (I nearly creamed myself when I inserted the floppy disc with the driver on it to enable me to print actual PICTURES back in 1992, Cindy Crawford never looked so good in grayscale! ), and I still use a fax machine on a daily basis, though that too I'd imagine it's days are numbered

Chuck Stone

LOL. Mechanical word processing.


LOL, LOL, LOL, ROFL. LMAO.

Funglegunk

If anybody still has an old typewriter, sell it to Tom Hanks. He's mad after them.

1ZRed

I see a lot of teething problems with this

Lenin Skynard

kowloon wrote: »

They already have, some of the hipster types are buying them.

This news didn't surprise me at all. Damn those hipsters and their predictability.

keith16

Did you know, that the longest word you can get using the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is typewriter?

mark renton

keith16 wrote: »

Did you know, that the longest word you can get using the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is typewriter?

Actually its not...

yipeeeeeeeeeee

goose2005

keith16 wrote: »

Did you know, that the longest word you can get using the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is typewriter?

teetertotter?

keith16

goose2005 wrote: »

teetertotter?

Definition? :pac:

goose2005

keith16 wrote: »

Definition? :pac:

American word for a see-saw

DEFTLEFTHAND

Many authors still use them. I suppose if you began your writing career using one you'd like to continue producing your work in the same way, a superstition maybe?

mockingjay

Typewriting is still a subject on the Junior Cert! The longest word you can type with your right hand on a qwerty keyboard is 'lollipop'! Any typewriting teachers here?

OneArt

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Many authors still use them. I suppose if you began your writing career using one you'd like to continue producing your work in the same way, a superstition maybe?

Can't afford a computer.

BUBBLE WRAP

I will just type this up on my invisible typewriter... :pac:

oppenheimer1

keith16 wrote: »

Did you know, that the longest word you can get using the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is typewriter?

Wiki says rupturewort is the longest, with 11 characters and a medical term has 12, uropyoureter.

K-9

My Dad had one, still in the home place, think it's jammed now and doesn't work. It's an Imperial one probably bought in the late 50's, beautiful machine and a ton weight, not like the word processor things of the 70's.

Larianne

I was so jealous of my friend who had an electronic typewriter! :pac:

Hippies!

RIP

My heart goes out to all those involved. So sad, thoughts and prays and kisses and puppy dogs horse pacific.

JohnMarston

kowloon wrote: »

They already have, some of the hipster types are buying them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9398975/Why-a-typewriter-is-the-ultimate-hipster-accessory.html

That news merits this response

Typewriter

I ain't dead yet!

padd b1975

mockingjay wrote: »

Typewriting is still a subject on the Junior Cert! The longest word you can type with your right hand on a qwerty keyboard is 'lollipop'! Any typewriting teachers here?

ASDF. JKL;

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marwelie

Saw a documentary on one of the news channels recently about an artist who produces portraits of famous faces using typewriters. Guess she'll be looking for a new medium now.....

kincsem

When I was in Africa decades ago there was a guy called Typewriter Zulu.
He is totally fecked. Afaik Zulus are now Ngonis.