Re: Typewriter woes

BP Jonsson wrote:> Från: Michael Poxon <mike@...>> > > > My high point was when
my linguistics professor> > gave me a 'golf-ball' with the IPA symbols on.> >
Must have been early to mid 1980's but even then> > she was very fond of
computational linguistics, I> > seem to recall.
 
IBM Selectrics were just too damn expensive!!!> >> Från: Gary Shannon> >> I had a
portable, manual Smith> > Corona typewriter that had two keys with> >
changeable type. I had a large box full of little> > snap-lid plastic boxes,
each box with a little clip-> > on type head that hooked onto either of the
two> > changeable keys. Each type head came with a little> > key-chip that
snapped onto the key itself, showing> > the graphic representation of whatever
symbol was> > installed on that key.
 
Just like my electric model. I didn't know there was a manual model, probably
cheaper, but in the end I'm glad I had the electric. I'm fast, and keys tend to
jam on a manual. The diss. ended up at over 900 pages, which would have been a
lot of key-pounding and thousands of carriage returns over the multiple drafs.
Holy Carpal Tunnel !! > > > > Using shift, I could have up to four different> >
special characters at a time on the keyboard. If I> > needed more, I could stop
typing, swap in a new> > special character, type it, and keep right on> >
going. It was very cool.> > Sounds very cool, but kinda messy. Didn't any of>
those clip-ons get lost?
How did you guess ? ;-))) Or, they got put into the wrong boxette or otherwise
misplaced. Also, changing them meant inky fingers, so you had to be careful
about keeping clean.