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[Dave McG]

Turns out it was a Remington/Underwood all along.

[TonyBrown]

IBM Selectric

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[toonces]

Smith-Corona Silent.

 

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[DieselGopher]

Hermes 3000 or GTFO

[Genesee Ted]

Smith-Corona Silent.

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I pawned my Smith-Corona

[EWW]

Hipsters… all of you

[Julius H Gardetto]

I pawned my Smith-Corona

Came here for this.

[porter]

Qwerkywriter

[Dave McG]

Hipsters… all of you

I don't think anyone who has met me would ever say that.

[BrewerGeorge]

IBM Selectric

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This

[AspenLeif]

I’m old enough and my school was rural enough we didn’t have a great computer lab. I took typing in 10th grade on an electric typewriter. I honestly think that’s the last time I’ve ever laid fingers on one. We had an apple II and a 486(?)dx ibm at home. Top notch technology!

[Sidney Porter]

I took typing in 9thbgrade I assume it would have been the 70-80s ibm electric that is mentioned. I don't know enough about typewriters to have an opinion. The Remington mention in the OP is something I would recognize but never used.

I also think there is an entire electric vs manual debate.

I assume the top of the line travel manual from 80s was a good tool for reporters. But I have no idea what that would be

[Sidney Porter]

In the early 90s (college) I had a brother "word processor". It looked like typewriter and you loaded paper like a typewriter. But it had a 3.5 floppy drive and a small LCD. It was easier than going to the computer lab.

Very few people had their own computer

[Dave McG]

In the early 90s (college) I had a brother "word processor". It looked like typewriter and you loaded paper like a typewriter. But it had a 3.5 floppy drive and a small LCD. It was easier than going to the computer lab.

Very few people had their own computer

I had a manual typewriter for my first two years of college. At some point in second year I started to borrow a buddy's word processor like yours once inn a while. I took a big gap (15 years) between second and third year, by then it was computers. I never got to use an electric typewriter.

[BrewerGeorge]

I took a year of typing on the selectric in 1987. With the C64 at home I was pretty decent already, but the class cemented the touch typing.

Six years later on the way to Roosevelt, I was temporarily assigned typing performance reviews for CINCLANTFLT. At the time the Navy controlled the validity of the paperwork with a special font. I had to go down to a cage and check out the selectric ball which used that font. I took it back to the office, installed it in the typewriter, and typed performance reviews from hand written notes. I couldn't go to the bathroom or to lunch without turning it back in to the cage unless I could get the command master chief to take possession.

Within two years after that computers had made the whole controlling the font obsolete.

[jimdkc]

Took typing in high school (on IBM Selectrics). Broke my arm half-way through, so I never got very fast. Was hired as a teaching assistant in the Business Department for the remainder of the year.