A little thing, but my partner and I got a typewriter a few months ago! We want to use it to type our newsletter, among other things! But before we can do that, there has to be some practice… uh, can’t really post a good looking newsletter if we make a bajillion typos on it.

The method I’ve been using for it is… uh, just “type literally whatever is in my head in the moment”, so it’s often kinda incoherent. Maybe not this time, as I typed this shortly after a falling-out with some friends of mine who showed themselves to me as liberals rather than people I can trust. So that was, as you can probably see, the exact thing that was on my mind. But other times it’s stuff like music production, or typing out what I recently read (like “This Soviet World”, for example) to better digest the subject matter.

Anyone else like their typewriters around here?! :D

  • HakFoo
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    2 days ago

    Some later electric ones had a “correcting” ribbon that stamped white over the offending letter.

    Old typewriters would let you shift the ribbon to use the top and bottom half, sometimes with different colours, but I’ve not seen one like that with a correcting half.

    Recently picked up a 1960 Underwood at the thrift shop; it’s a bit stiff and my typing style is not used to the sheer height and space between keys.