[TC Rider]

I AM TELLING YOU. I GREW UP ON MILITARY BASES.... AND THEY AINT SPENDING THAT KIND OF PERCENTAGE DOLLAR ON A TYPEWRITER!

I got news for everybody, I was in the NG from '72 to '78 and everything we got was regular army hand-me-downs. Most of our office equipment was Korean war vintage.

[umgud]

Nano airbrush technology (and a steady hand) could also explain this.

[Hi Heels]

In 1975, my dad was an Air Force Colonel. His secretary had a 1918 Underwood typewriter.

[ArmyBratproud]

Sorry for ya man.

You may have gotten my dad's old typewriter.

If you had trouble with the bar (that holds the paper) sliding back at the end of the lines...

That's my fault. I was visiting my dad in his office and knocked a typewriter off the desk.

[jhouston]

I got news for everybody, I was in the NG from '72 to '78 and everything we got was regular army hand-me-downs. Most of our office equipment was Korean war vintage. I'll one up you on that one. I was a personnel clerk in the AF Reserve stationed at Ellington AFB a block from the TANG Headquarters. We had no electric typewriters. None. I typed re-assignment, discharge and promotion orders all day long on a manual typewriter. The TANG got our hand-me-downs. I guarantee they did not have an electric typewriter, much less a 4,000 piece of equipment.