[mdittmar]

LOL!

[Vendome]

I Have two Royals in storage.

I should find a place to display them.

They are mint...

[Johnny B.]

I have to admit, a few years ago I purchased an IBM Selectric, just because I had always wanted one.

I guess you never forget your first love. :)

[mlo]

I restored one of these myself. Beautiful machine.

[RJS1950]

Up until probably the late 70s, the Marine Corps had an MOS for typewriter repair. I used a lot of manual and electric over many years. The one I hated the most was introduced when PCs and MS Office were just coming in. It was a type-behind Selectric, correcting machine. It buffered a line of typing and then wrote it after the buffer was full. For us old farts who learned to type on manuals, the ear (sound of the click)-brain connection was lost because you hit the key and there was no typing sound so after a half a line your fingers became muddled and typed gibberish. I couldn’t use it for my classified work that needed to be perfect and my admin clerks finally came to me and told me they couldn’t either. After some strongly worded negotiation with supply, we got our old Selectrics back.

[CGASMIA68]

Connecticut = Typewriters...We had Royal and Underwood.Many Aunts and Uncles retired from both before the companies folded.

[Axenolith]

I have within the last year gotten a 1918 Corona III portable.

Anyone know where I can get replacement ribbons?

[FlyFisher]

I made a nice living for several years repairing IBM Selectric typewriters. The engineering that went into designing them was incredible. Service manager for the largest independent typewriter company in Los Angeles and we maintained thousands of them. Switched to computers and printers when they came along and still service typewriters...2 or 3 a month...just for fun.

I actually repaired the actual typewriter used by Stephen J. Cannell that was featured in the closing credits of his TV shows, where he drags the paper out of the typewriter and it flies around turning in to his logo.

Fun memories.