Comments on: 14-Ton Underwood Vintage Typewriter

By: helgajurk

helgajurk — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:17:03 +0000

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By: Jaden

Jaden — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:08:24 +0000

Laughing… Love that: LONG LIVE METAL… typing
I did not know that typewriters could give out.
I have 2. I love them!

By: cajun Cleary

cajun Cleary — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:17:55 +0000

I have fond memories of learning to type on my mother’s old 1927 Underwood manual typewriter (with the glass keys). I was 8 and the typewriter was already 35 years old. The machine was given to me after I spent my “life savings” to have it refurbished. It finally gave out during my college years, with a platen that was too pooped to pop! I still own it —and display it. Writing on a Mac Powerbook is fast & fun but easily sidetracked by Cyber Distraction. Thus I am in the process of purchasing a vintage Hermes 3000 manual typewriter and returning to my roots. I’ll let you know if I prefer the Hermes to the Underwood. LONG LIVE METAL TYPE!

By: JAN

JAN — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:51:35 +0000

A bit late responding to this but here goes….I remember us having my grandmother’s manual trypewriter, but I more or less just played around with it and could only type on it with one finger. I only learned the proper way to type when I started high school. Grant you, I wasn’t the speediest typist (between 50 to 55 wpm I think) but I took typing every year of my high school, including a stenographers course my last year. My typing speed was better than my shorthand speed, eek. I’m not what you would call a naturally fast hand writer, so it can certainly affect ones speed in shorthand. Does anyone even use shorthand anymore?!

In high school I learned on electric typewriters, and I myself owned a Smith Corona. I wouldn’t have a clue what my typing speed would be today, lol.

By: Friar

Friar — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:37:21 +0000

I taught myself on my Mom’s old manual typewriter (vintage ~ 1960).

What can I say? It was summer. I was twelve years old. I was bored.

(Mind you, this was in the era before computers, DVD’s and video games).

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01:17 +0000

Re: Tom Hanks typewriter collection/writer?

Yes, I know, for sure, that he writes. He got writing credit for a few things.
from IMDB.com:

1. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) (written by)
2. “Band of Brothers” (2001) (mini) TV mini-series (part 1)
3. “From the Earth to the Moon” (1998) (mini) TV mini-series (segments 6, 7, 11, 12)
4. That Thing You Do! (1996) (written by)

So that is cool. Although chances are that they were written on a computer, not one of his typewriters. lol But who knows?

By: Helyn

Helyn — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:48:05 +0000

I learned how to type on an “Olivetti” electric typewriter that my mom and I WON for writing a radio jingle for that coolest, modern, RED, typewriter. I still remember the jingle… don’t ask me to sing it.

By: Jaden

Jaden — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:30:49 +0000

PATTY — re the collection of Tom Hanks — How cool! Now that is truly a museum there. He must write, right?

By: Patty

Patty — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:19:10 +0000

Just one more quick comment.

I was reading Tom Hanks’ biography on IMDB just now and it mentions that he, too, collects typewriters. It says he has over 80 of them from around the world.
Wowzers!

By: Jaden

Jaden — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:47:00 +0000

RJ KELLER — That sounds pretty much like my experience. At the dawning of the Internet, only the geeks would ever be caught dead near a computer. We had maybe 2 computers with that green weird font. Can the youngsters even fathom how uncool computers and cell phones were? My mom used to chat on her brick of a cell phone in the car and I was mortified when my classmates would see. What could it be compared to today? Nothing I guess, since the nerdier a person is, the cooler they are now.

What do teens think is uncool now? Anyone know?