typewriters
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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