I literally practiced on a manual typewriter for my 8th grade summer typing class.
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The manual one was at home. The school had an electric typewriter.
jul 9, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
I got my mom’s manual typewriter from the 1950’s, but was not born until the 1970’s. In the 80’s, I thinkwe did typing (“keyboarding”) on electric, and switched to some computer terminals for “word processing.”
jul 9, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
I used my dads manual typewriter to type my term paper in 1984. Any errors meant starting the page over
jul 9, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
Oh man. The dumb ink erasers made holes in the paper! Although by the 80s I guess we had whiteout.
jul 9, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
We weren’t allowed to use whiteout had to start the page over 😭
jul 9, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view
I remember having to ERASE typos...bleh.
jul 10, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view