Actually, I have two of them. One is an electronic model from the '80s that has some automatic correction features (I used it before I got my first Mac Plus), and the other is my dad's old very manual typewriter from about 1945.

although I had one or two prior to then, and used them quite a bit...
even took a semester of typing class in high school,
which was unusual for a male---- but I still type with both hands,
and using the proper finger home positioning which I was taught...

DAMN, can't even say when I last SAW one, except in old movies! LOL

But since you ask, I kinda wish that I DID have still have one, somewhere--
which could be used in limited situations which called for it




Still think that was one of the TWO most useful classes I took in high school---
the other being 'driver education' which they mostly don't offer anymore!

AND, I'm still typing on the computer----
BUT I haven't been driving the past year, since my car is broke down! LOL

a;sldkfj - first exercise in typing class!
I, too, took typing in high school - class of '65 - the only guy in the class (planned it that way - and DID marry one of the girls from that class - but that's another story.....). I am a piano player so the manual dexterity was not a problem.
One of my high school graduation gifts was a Smith/Corona typewriter that I took to college. I earned money typing papers for others, using that 'new' erasable typing paper! I'd charge $1 a page, $2 if it was after 10pm and was due the next morning!
My next wife was a legal secretary and we bought a 'professional' electric that she used at home and also did typing for both work and 'extra' money. We were 'late' to move into the 'computer' age because that 'electric' was so good and she was so fast.
Our first 'computer' typing was on a 'dot matrix' that looked like something from a newsroom movie! It had the 'spooled' paper that you had to tear off the edges after the printing was done.
It took a while - but now - I wonder what my dear typing teacher from 1964 would think of what we have now!

that I want to look neat and professional. I bought it at Goodwill after I retired after not having one for many years before that.

and you can create an ACTUAL DU poll where members can vote!


(well, maybe even less than that, there seems to be no minimum limit---
although I'd suggest one dollar as a minimum! It's good for a YEAR....)

Have for more than 20 years.

I didn't really want an actual poll - I want comments.

It was an early 80s Smith Corona, but I jettisoned it about 25 years ago because I wasn't using it.

Computer and printer.

I learned to use it with precision mostly for college term papers.

I'm on my 12th and 13th printers, inkjet and laser respectively.

I can fill out any form, print between the lines of index cards, and also lay down images.

I brought one here when we moved to the ranch in 1986, it may be rusting away out in the shed/garage.

I had a Brother electric typewriter I used and got rid of it about 30 years ago. I hadn't use it for awhile because computers at work replaced typewriters and my home computer could do just about everything a typewriter could do. The typewriter was good for filling out forms but now most forms can be downloaded and filled out. What forms aren't loaded I can scan them in to my computer and use a PDF filler program to fill it out.

Received it as a gift in (I think) 1973. Last used, best guess, was about 1983-ish. Possibly later, writing a resume or two before home computers were a thing. It's in a closet. I have not idea if it works. It has to be crusty. For certain the ribbon must have dried up and I have no idea if I could even get a new one. It wasn't cool enough to support a ribbon that was both black and red. Oh well. At least I don't need to buy a bottle of Wite-Out. LOL

a Remington manual, and a Brother electric. Both are in the attic, I believe.

I haven't used one in years, but I have a couple of them.

Recommended.

It's a nice way of focusing and not being distracted. But after piles of scripts and incoherent novels, I got a little tired of retyping every word of every damn thing.

Sure improves your typing speed and accuracy, though!

which he gave me to take to college.

I'm not sure I've used it since then (1978). Perhaps not even that recently - since I started using word processors in college.

It had a rotating ball function that was state of the art right before our desktop computers were developed and marketed.

I last used it in the late 70's when I typed up minutes for the Home Owners Association.

Somewhere around a hundred years ago.

it types things out in script. It was a gift from my aunt, I've never seen another one like it. 🤔

I wish I still had my typewriter.

when I was in college. Mom told me to take a typewriting class because it would be useful, that was twenty years before I had a computer. I lost the typewriter when my house burned down in 2005.

As a result of this inquiry however; I had to check to see how accessible new ribbon for a typewriter still is.

I was surprised to find that it’s fairly easy to acquire; and generally affordable (2 pair for $6.99 seems to be the average…)

I also found that blank analog cassette tapes are wildly expensive; a single Maxell XL-II 90 minute is roughly $11-$13 each.

We have hundreds of them; (perhaps even over a thousand) -Dead shows from years of trading live recordings.

They're great for checks and certain government forms.

came out, I got rid of the word processor.

Last time I used one was in 1986 in college. I switched to a computer after that.

I also used to have a slide ruler. Maybe it's still around here somewhere. I was the last Freshman engineering class that had to learn to use one. Haven't touched it since ENGR 101 either.

They're fun to fool with every now and then, but I don't use them for any formal work.

Not since the 80's as a kid. There's no need with a computer and a printer.

This one I found online is identical to the one I have.

that is still being used today on computers?

and to mechanically separate the keys that are most likely to tangle together as they hit the platen. Thus making fingers travel miles further than is necessary with a more efficient DVORAK keyboard.

She also had a Smith-Corona standard electric typewriter, but she could make those keys tangle by accident too. I remember when she bought an IBM selectric (the one with the golf-ball) it was amazing how quickly she could type as that little ball would fly around faster than the eye can see.



My first typewriter in college was a used Royal... like this one, only a blue color.

I found it in a trashcan near Syracuse University in 1966, when I was at a USAF total immersion Russian Language course. I took it back to the barracks. It didn't work properly. Sticky keys, etc. So, I looked up a typewriter repair shop. It cost me $35 for a cleaning and adjustment.

That old typewriter followed me around the country, to Turkey, and back. It went with me when I returned to college after my enlistment. It produced all of the papers an English Major and grad student had to write.

Later, it produced manuscripts as I started on my career as a magazine writer. I used it every day. I got if fixed a couple of more times. Finally, in 1984, I gave it a last cleaning and adjustment and put it, in it's case, on a shelf. It still travels with me, but never gets used. In 1984, I got me first IBM PC clone computer and a daisy wheel printer. Everything after that was written in Microsoft Word and printed, if necessary, for submission. Before long, everything went to publishers online.

So, the old typewriter is still on a shelf, in its case. It still works. It's hard to get ribbons for it now, and I don't use it any more. But, it got me through years and years of writing, so it has a special place in my heart and my home.

Even have a couple new, probably dried out ribbons in my desk.

Loved the clack, made me feel productive.

An electric one that my husband had when we got married years ago. Don’t ask me where it is now though.

I have two or three....haven't used one in years. Most forms, I can get online.

We had plenty of them in my family. I passed a typewriting course in high school journalism class, barely.

I miss the aesthetics of typewriters. I loved the sound of the keys and the letterpress texture of a typed page.

I think about buying a refurbished one or a retro version. But then I think about having to constantly buy new ribbon and how I would have to re-learn the finger pressure and I choose not to indulge in that nostalgia.

My dad bought a word processor in the early 90s. The first time I used it I knew I would never go back to a typewriter.

but I don't use them.

All three are stored. We haven't used them in decades.

Literally that was it.

I had forgotten I still had it, it's been under the stairs so long. I saved to buy it, the summer after my senior year in high school. I bought it about two weeks before college & I was the only one on my dorm floor with one. I let people use it & at holiday break they bought me a pack of ribbons & correction tape. I used it to type resumes before computers.

I got it when I was in high school.

My daughter asked for it for her bday and I bought it on eBay.