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Merry Christmas everyone (typed on an IBM buckling-spring typewriter)
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 16:14
by 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
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 16:34
by andrewjoy
Very cool, not quite a selectric but very cool!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 17:33
by XMIT
Just for you andrewjoy (and everyone else too)
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Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 17:49
by 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.
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 17:53
by 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!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 18:40
by andrewjoy
What font is that selectic using ?
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 18:43
by XMIT
Letter Gothic. It says so right there in the photo!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 18:46
by zslane
Letter Gothic is the element ball that sits in my Selectric II most of the time. I also like Artisan.
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 20:48
by ohaimark
My old Royal.
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:10
by 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 A quaint beauty, but long superseded by the world.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!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:13
by Madhias
Some use them until today!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:17
by 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.
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:33
by 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.
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:39
by chzel
ohaimark wrote: ......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?
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 22:44
by Muirium
Come on! I'd go handwritten every time. Typewritten looks like bad news!
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 23:18
by Chyros
Damn, if only I had my Remington here xD .
Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 23:25
by chzel
