Yes,,,,if you want, you can still buy a typewriter.

[Stuart G]

I was wondering if an old typewriter in my room still had a company..So, I looked up the company, Brother, and found it was still there, ok, so I wondered, would anybody possibly be selling manual typewriters?..
Could there be anyone, anywhere, selling those things?...Well, no I am not selling anything..But if you would like to see...................take a look, it is a safe link, something called, EBAY (thought I would share)

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/brother-manual-typewriter

Oh...you do not like the company..Brother?....
How about a Remington typewriter?

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/remington-manual-typewriter

Sears sold them too...
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/sears-manual-typewriter

[pinboy3niner]

1. And if worse comes to worst you can always hide it in the floor

The Lives of Others (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

[FrankfurtCat]

2. I had an awesome Panasonic electronic typewriter in the 80's that got me through college.

I sold it in the 90's-I would love to have it back.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I still have my dad's 1946 Smith-Corona portable.

It got him through law school and it got me through college.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. Tom Hanks collects old manual typewriters

A fan sent him a sketchbook full of drawings of him and he sent one from his collection to her as a thank you gift.

[lastlib]

12. God, this'll give me nightmares abt. my old manual machine....

...and the undergrad honors thesis I typed on it--four drafts, 100+ pages each--PLUS the other papers I had to do for my various courses! My fingers STILL are permanently curled from pounding those keys, almost forty years later! More than a few times I pounded it so much for so long that I had to soak my hands in cold water, they hurt so much.

At least for law school (and until I got a computer in the early 90s), I got an IBM Selectric. SO nice after that punding on the manual!

[FrankfurtCat]

5. Remember the creepy typewriters in the movie "Naked Lunch"?

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://google.com/search%3Ftbm%3Disch%26q%3DNaked%2520Lunch&h=1440&w=960&tbnid=RryjrpZ-SA86YM:&vet=1

[Stuart G]

6. My Brother typwriter is about 6 feet from where I am sitting..

I think it works, it is sitting on a table..I don't remember when I used it last??but I am almost positive that it works..Now, it is not plugged in, but I could do that...But I am on a computer, with a printer, and stereo music and a keyboard/typing thing...that I am working on at this moment, so what do want that thing for?...
...................................????????????????????????????????????

[FrankfurtCat]

17. The Panasonic portable typewriter I had was awesome...

...it was more than an electric typewriter-it had memory and editing functions-almost a mini-computer. I carried it with me wherever I went-I commuted 100 miles or more a day to get to school, sometimes on a bus. I didn't have to rely on the computers at school, and I didn't have a personal computer yet. And I'm an overly nostalgic person.

[area51]

7. The Vermont Country Store sells a manual typewriter

here.

[jmowreader]

8. Royal still MAKES them!

Google "Royal Epoch."

I have an IBM Correcting Selectric II. I was in a thrift shop, this machine was sitting there with a $20 price tag...mine! It comes in very handy for typing up multipart forms...like my company's purchase orders. The only weird thing about it is, the first time I tried using it it only typed uppercase characters - regardless of the position of the shift key. I pulled the element and examined it with a magnifying glass; it types only in uppercase because this element has no lowercase characters on it.

[malthaussen]

9. Man, back when I was an undergrad, I would have maimed for one of those babies.

Think they went for about $600 in 1976 dollars. Hell, the typing elements were twenty bucks each.

I ended up getting a plastic knockoff from Sears that did the same thing and used the same elements. It was still like 200 bucks.

-- Mal

[csziggy]

10. I learned to type on one of these!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-OLIVER-NO-5-STANDARD-VISIBLE-TYPEWRITER-/391664379344?hash=item5b310425d0%3Ag%3AIdsAAOSwA3dYZX3-

It taught me to type slowly - if you typed fast those curved things with the letters on them got all tangled up.

I think my Mom found it at a junk shop for a couple of bucks. I wonder if she still has it?

[Stuart G]

11. Typing skills learned in high school, are skills that I use everyday..

I see people using the hunt and peck method of entering info on computers..and of course hand held things..but being able to type at a reasonably fast pace, (like I am doing right now) is a skill that I was taught in high school. And one that I am glad ...........now....those spelling problems, well that is another story..

[progressoid]

13. They're good for bribing Tom Hanks too...

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/damn-you-all-to-hell.html





He does like type writers!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Love the Playtone letterhead

Loved "That Thing You Do"!

[hunter]

15. My mom gave both my sister and me electric typewriters when we started college.

She'd made us all take typing in middle school. This was before computers. The skill served us well later on.

My mom's a master typist, she was probably among the fastest in the U.S. for a time She could transcribe tapes without pausing while editing along the way. Sometimes she'd hear us struggling to finish papers late at night in high school, tap.tap.tap...tap, and it would irritate her so much she'd get out of bed, shove us aside, and BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP she'd finish typing the paper in two minutes. But it would cost us in peace of mind, she wouldn't be happy about it.

My original term papers were always cut-and-paste monstrosities. The magic thing about these typewriters was that they had a white ribbon erase feature so you didn't have to use liquid paper. I replaced that white ribbon much more frequently than the regular black ribbon. But my papers still looked like crap so I'd get them copied at Kinko's and hand in the copies. Professors and TA's sometimes balked at that until they saw what my originals looked like, or worse, suffered my handwriting. No one ever doubted I'd written the papers, my "I don't give a shit about grammar, I'm just hammering the words out" writing voice was unusual.

Then I discovered vi. It was a damned miracle, writing papers using a computer, and there was a spell checker too.

Soon enough I had my own computer, an Atari 800 (my favorite machine ever) and I traded some work for a nice Epson dot matrix printer. It completely changed my life. I even wrote a few printer drivers to make the printer do things the standard printer drivers couldn't do; simple math formulas and such. But the typewriter was still essential for filling out paper forms, especially since my handwriting was so awful.

When my kids were small they were more fascinated by the typewriter than they were my computers, learning how to change the paper and everything.

I gave the typewriter away years ago.

Even in grade school my kids were using computers to write book reports and papers.

[Orrex]

16. I've accumulated eight manual typewriters.

Don't judge me. I can stop any time I want.