Typewriters - Blog Posts

I bought this beautiful lady for $30 at a flea market! A lovely 1937 Smith and Corona type 11 typewriter. I can't wait to clean her up and test her out 🥰 Everything seems to work and it seems to have all the parts. Just needs some serious deep cleaning and then I can test it out. I'm very excited.

We used to have one like the Hunter S. Thompson one. Weighed a ton and was the color of cloudy piss. 

For @nostalgiamonth‘s Tech/Objects Thursdays: Manual typewriters! Also know as: “You don’t realise how weak your fingers are until you try to type on one of these.”  Nothing beats the sound of pounding keys and ratchetting the paper down into position and slamming the carriage across. 

Working Portable Manual Typewriter // carouselandfolk

Tennessee Williams’ typewriter. At the Morgan Library & Museum. 

This super cool life-size LEGO typewriter actually types

This motorized LEGO machine looks like the real thing, right down the the round letter keys. 

Read more in my CNET article here.

ebay rainbow typewriters

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bringing my little typewriter to work with me is always fun because so many customers do a double take and go "what on earth is that" and then i get to infodump about my best friend the neo alphasmart 3000 who has seen me through many dangers

OMFG

its my 21st birthday in a month and i really want to buy a typewriter as a gift to myself and sort of like an “i’m proud of you for making it this far” kind of thing. i’m a writer and a hopeless romantic so i’ve been wanting one for quite some time but i told myself i couldn’t have one until i started writing properly and actually seeing it through. i’m about to reach the halfway mark of my first novel length piece of writing and i’ve also been songwriting consistently for over a year now so i figured i had finally earned it. 

anyway the reason i’m posting is because i know almost nothing about typewriters so i have pretty much no idea how to go about buying one. if anyone knows about typewriters and would be able to give me some tips/advice about buying one that would be so so so appreciated !!