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celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 20 Jan 25

Tom Hanks moved around a lot when he was young and had few permanent possessions. Since the 1970s he has collected about 250 typewriters. He says: "Every time you type something on a typewriter, it is a one-of-a-kind work of...

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Did you learn to type on a typewriter?

Scott Andersen @DocAndersen (54399) • United States 25 Dec 18

One of the things I got from my father was an old typewriter. I added one similar to the one I learned on many years ago recently. My dad left me his portable Royal. I found a standup Royal like the one he had in his home...

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What are the things do you think will not be known to those who will take birth after 2050?

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 16 Aug 16

I'm quite curious. Many things are disappearing, that is, they are no longer in use and are not being produced anymore. They are thus becoming extinct, for example typewriters. Lesser and lesser people are using...

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electric typewriters

Lenore Plassman @sallypup (69176) • Centralia, Washington 13 Oct 15

Anyone know what a typewriter is these days? One of my 90 something Mom's first jobs was to type orders for Montgomery Ward. The job and the know how stuck. Mom loves to write letters. She can still ably write long hand with a...

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Do you still love typing with a typewriter?

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 26 Aug 15

I love typewriters, though I never had the opportunity to use one for a long time. I am fond of writing. I love writing because I have too much inside and the only way I can pour my heart out is through words. But on seeing...

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Diaries, Journaling, Discipline

momiecat @momiecat (997) • United States 22 Apr 13

I have recently been watching the day to day revelations of an active trial involving a female who admittedly murdered her boyfriend/ex-boyfriend. Throughout the unraveling of the defense and prosecution witness testimony, it has...

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Typewriter

kendedes2011 @kendedes2011 (2712) • Indonesia 20 Aug 11

Maybe someone even knows of you with typewriters. I got one and it works all excellent, just the thing that always makes for a couple of letters a space where I do not want it. Is she or is that possibly some broken-tab function?...

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do you know how to use a typewriter.?

janebeth @janebeth (2032) • Philippines 27 Aug 09

hello friends, very busy doing myLot?? what if there is no computer nowadays?? can we experience this myLot now?? i know that we are now having a high technology system and all of us knows how to use a computer but i just want...

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Do you collect anytghing?

ersmommy1 @ersmommy1 (12587) • United States 16 May 09

Stamps? Movies? (that would be me) How about type writers? Well Tom Hanks does! he collects vintage typewriters. He has over 100 manual models dating from the 1930s until the last machines were manufactured. And he has them...

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Do you still use a typewriter?

ARIANNELEXI @ARIANNELEXI (798) • Philippines 8 Mar 07

In our work place we are using computers but there sometimes documents that must be filled-up with typewriters. Still typewriters helps us. But computer does lots of magic in our daily work, right?

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The Sounds of a Typewriter

galatea @galatea (686) • Philippines 4 Mar 07

I recently installed a little program that made my computer sound like a typewriter. I used to be greatly annoyed by the sound of typewriters. It reminded me of not affording a computer while most of my friends already had...

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Typewriters- Anyone remember using them? Still using one?

mckenziemom @mckenziemom (522) • United States 13 Feb 07

I recently ran across the very first resume that I typed shortly before graduating from college. I got a bit nostalgia looking at that paper and some other college assignments I had typed on an electric typewriter during my...

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