My 1913 Smith Corona was a frisky beast - with a cloth covered wooden case.
The "o" wa so sharp it cut little eyelets in the pages - to this day I hit
the keys too hard on this laptop and other keyboards. (My first book was
typeset on an IBM golf ball - high tech back then.)
Andrew
2008/12/20 Christopher C Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:06 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> > With reference to Max's post, Gibson wrote this on a typewriter!
>
> Lets start a thread naming our favourite typewriters. I was never really
> fond of the IBM golf ball. The three Olivetti would have to be me.
>
> Ha! Typewriters, such wonderful things. And editing 30 character double
> space typewritten copy with a blue pencil the typesetter could not
> decode. Stet, I tell him, stet, oh and that means delete that scrawl. It
> being all to much for the typesetter I was forced to learn the obscure
> control coding of orange text on grey dumb terminal feeding The
> Operating System which spooled to The Typesetter.
>
> I wrote my undergrad and graduate degrees on an Olivetti Studio
> electric, grey and green, what a typewriter! Well, not exactly, working
> in real estate advertising, I had enough excess funds (after paying my
> coke dealer) to purchase a Mac SE during my final undergrad year. So for
> my graduate thesis I hand wrote the first draft, typed the second on the
> Olivetti Studio and the final draft I typed on the Mac SE and set with
> Ready Set Go.
>
> I really must kerb my technological desires. Kerb, as lying in the
> gutter looking at the stars. My great uncle Wilkins owned a typewriter
> and did not take a wife.
>
>
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Andrew
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