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Buying a typewriter
2007-09-12, 3:56 AM #1
Does anyone have experience with a manual typewriter? I only recall having used electrics... do the manuals require considerably stronger keypresses to do anything?

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Lord Tiberius Grismath
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2007-09-12, 4:02 AM #2
Did you get one from Salvation Army?
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2007-09-12, 5:17 AM #3
Depends on how fresh the ribbon is if I recall correctly.

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nope.
2007-09-12, 5:24 AM #4
Why would you need a typewriter?

Are there not enough save points around your mansion or something?
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2007-09-12, 5:36 AM #5
A little stronger keypresses for sure. And probably more steady keypresses. Though it has been ages since I tried one, and I was quite young indeed back then.

I wonder whatever happened to that portable mechanical typewriter... Maybe my parents still have it stored somewhere.
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2007-09-12, 6:29 AM #6
yes stronger keypresses are indeed needed. a new ribbon is reccomended right off the bat. find a typewriter shop in your are and order one for it.
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2007-09-12, 7:03 AM #7
They're harder, but more importantly, you have to press the keys down much further.
2007-09-12, 7:11 AM #8
Yeah, and some of the OLD typewriters aren't in QWERTY format. I tried typing on my great grandmas typewriter once and was like :psyduck:
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2007-09-12, 8:56 AM #9
Yep, definitely much harder than an electric. And yes, you have to push down more. Yes, it's harder to fatfinger on a manual typewriter as well, which is nice. Get out your correction tape :)

What's wrong with you, anyway?
2007-09-12, 1:01 PM #10
As the others said, yes, longer presses and you have to press harder.

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