Merry Christmas everyone (typed on an IBM buckling-spring typewriter)

[clickykeyboards]

My holiday greeting card for the end of the year.

See you again in 2016.

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See video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQQOwniAOY

[andrewjoy]

Very cool, not quite a selectric but very cool!

[XMIT]

Just for you andrewjoy (and everyone else too)

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[Hypersphere]

@clickykeyboards: Thanks! Great sound! Like a Thompson submachine gun!

@XMIT: Thanks to you and Mrs. XMIT as well.

Merry Christmas to all from Hypersphere and family.

[Muirium]

Some rebel better get out a Triumph Adler to wish everyone a Cherry Christmas. Someone who is not me. I for one welcome our imperial overlords. They made many of my favourite boards!

[andrewjoy]

What font is that selectic using ?

[XMIT]

Letter Gothic. It says so right there in the photo!

[zslane]

Letter Gothic is the element ball that sits in my Selectric II most of the time. I also like Artisan.

[ohaimark]

My old Royal.

[Muirium]

Pretty. But also pretty useless. This is why I'm not into typewriters: to get something useful out of them you need to take a picture and post it with your computer anyway. They're like pocket watches. A quaint beauty, but long superseded by the world. Classic keyboards, meanwhile, can be made just as useful to this day.

Also, I need every excuse I can muster not to start another whole bloody collection!

[Madhias]

Some use them until today!

[chzel]

He's a show off! Notice the huge pocket watch! Mu is right!
And I'm really close to getting a 6746 Wheelwriter from a local ad. I hope it's not functional so I can save myself.

[ohaimark]

Mu is right, for sure. They have their uses, though. A typewritten thank you note/xmas card/letter, nowadays, is cooler and more personal than a handwritten or printed version of the same thing.

Also... I like turning in essays to my university profs in typewritten format. Just to rattle their cages.

[chzel]

......A typewritten thank you note/xmas card/letter, nowadays, is cooler and more personal than a handwritten or printed version of the same thing.

How so?

[Muirium]

Come on! I'd go handwritten every time. Typewritten looks like bad news!

[Chyros]

Damn, if only I had my Remington here xD .

[chzel]