This is for all those who remember what a typewriter was

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G4nX0Xrn-wo&sns=em

[Historic NY]

1. asdf jkl; ............ding.

[snot]

2. Cute; but disappointing that he can't actually type!

[JNelson6563]

3. Very cute.

[HopeHoops]

4. That was funny as hell. Even the CONDUCTOR had trouble staying composed.

[1monster]

7. I was wondering how the clarinet player was able to play his instrument ... an irrepressible smile

is not the correct way to hold one's mouth when playing a reed instrument. (Mother of a clarient and sax player.)

[HopeHoops]

8. I blow sax. You're correct. The 1st chair violinist was having a hard time keeping a straight face

[Ednahilda]

5. I learned to type

on a manual machine. The video brings back memories . . .
I can still type faster than anyone I know who learned on a computer, a testimony to the quality of the high school teacher who taught the class.

[HopeHoops]

9. I type at 80 wpm. My daughters all learned on computers (JumpStart Typing) and are nearly as fast.

Everyone in the house touch types. A lot of times I don't even look at the screen. I just know where the keys are and type. I've taken a laptop into a public meeting and transcribed from the speech while watching the speaker. Yeah, there were some typos, but nothing that wasn't easy to correct. And I don't use twitter-speak.

[CTyankee]

11. I remember those classes! The teacher gave you grief if you dared look at the keys since

you were supposed to be "touch typing."

[Greybnk48]

12. I had to do the first half of the semester on a manual

in High School because we only had 20 electric typewriters and I missed the cut. By the time I was switched to an electric mid-semester, I had muscle-bound pinkies!

As an aside: The fasted typist in my class was a girl who had one arm (the other arm was very small and deformed). She used to kick everyone's butt for speed and accuracy--very, very fast.

[A Simple Game]

6. Fun to watch. n/t

[TahitiNut]

10. Wanted: Percussionist trained in typewriter.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

13. 8th grade typing class

was a one-quarter elective. But from day one, all the keyboards were blank. We looked straight ahead and up a bit at a huge keyboard chart and so learned touch typing. I've always said that was the most valuable course I ever took in my life---was a medical transcriptionist and secretary for a number of years, and got up to 100 wpm. It drives me nuts to see how kids type today...2 fingers and watching the keyboard.

[Still Blue in PDX]

14. Cute! My first typewriter at work was an IBM Executive, and it had a carriage.

When I train newbies on our platform at work I quite often slip up and call the enter key the "return" key.

The last typing test I took, my speed was 144 wpm. Computers have made me a lot less accurate than the days when I relied on white-out and razorblades for the carbon copies, but every once in a while I break out the computer game Typer Shark as a fun way to regain accuracy.

At home we had an old Underwood typewriter. My hat is off to anyone who could touch type on one of those things; those typists must have had fingers of steel!

[Crowman1979]

15. I've seen this done on a Jerry Lewis movie a long time ago.

[RebelOne]

16. I learned to type in high school on a manual Underwood.

I don't know if they are still in existence any more. And this was years before electric typewriters. Boy, was I happy when personal computers were an everyday item. I did not have to use white out or corrective tape any more. And having to make carbon copies was a real bitch when you made an error.

[KansDem]

17. A little off topic but this reminds of an old joke...

I first heard this joke about 45 years ago. It sounds like it might have come from vaudeville.

First man meets a second man and asks:

First man: Why is your neck like a typewriter?
Second man: I don't know. Why is my neck like a typewriter?
First man: Because it's 'Underwood.'

Hahaha...
The first man moves on and the second man meets a third man. He wants to play the same joke on him:

Second man: Why is your neck like a typewriter?
Third man: I don't know. Why is my neck like a typewriter?
Second man: Because it's 'Remington.'

I don't know, but for some reason, this schtick always makes me smile!