I found this in a museum. I remember learning how to type on one that didn't look much different than this one. No I am not that old but the typewriter that my parents has was. What does this have to do with real estate? Nothing . . except . . no I got it right the first time. I just thought it was kind of fun to see one of these again. I named the photo pre-historic lap top. I have to say it is cordless, and wireless and energy efficient. It must not work very well though because the note on the paper in the typewriter is hand written.
My fingers still hurt from the pounding they took while using this old classic Underwood ( a stand-by in the Air Force ) when the modern keyboards (circa 1970 ) went down.
We certainly had one of those at our house, and I used it, on occasion. However, its main task was to help my Dad write his accounting books.
In addition to preparing the Canadian edition of a US accounting text, my Dad wrote his own accounting series, Debit Equals Credit (3-year textbook, 6 workbooks, 3 teacher’s guides). Quite an undertaking for the Underwood!
Hi Teresa. Yes. I know that I’m crazy. I love old tings to and this is an UNDERWOOD Typewriter Magazine Ad 1944.
LOL I love old things too. 🙂
I learned how to type on one of these but my folks got an electric one shortly after that so I didn’t have to pound on it for too long. The keys had to be depressed a long distance, as I recall, before they actually touched all the way down – which meant you never could type very long. And God forbid you made a mistake because it was hard to fix that (whiteout or backspacing over some white tape-like stuff which never worked). Anyway, just looking at one of these makes me feel old! For some reason my nine year-old is fascinated with old typewriters though so I have a feeling one of these is going to wind up in our house at some point! A couple of years ago a guy who used to sell typewriters out of an actual storefront in Madison finally closed his doors. That was kind of like an end of an era moment for us. They even did a fairly big story about it in the paper!