You geeks missing the functionality of "how it was back in my days" operating systems, complaining about the modern looks and feel of Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10, this is for you:
Full story: Student upgrades a 1930s typewriter for modern-day messaging
I've seen some SteamPunk systems that use an old typewriter for input. Pretty cool looking stuff.
I learned to type on the old Remington and Underwood typewrites. Until one uses one you have not idea of key travel and pressure. If they weren't kept clean and lubricated they even got worse.
Going from them to a IBM bouncing ball was quite a learning curve.
Believe it or not but back in the day they taught typing in high school.
I don't know how the guy got that old typewriter to do the computer things but I do want one.
If you look at the one Bunnyj posted, it looks like the keyboard key caps were replaced with the typewriter keys. You can see the switches under the keys.
The old typewriter likely has micro switches added in the linkages somewhere. Down underneath where their hard to see. Add a little more electronics and its a keyboard replacement.
Check out this site, Hackaday ? Fresh hacks every day Lots of cool stuff here. Don't let the hackaday title fool you, their hacking hardware to make it do things it was never designed to do.
In typing class we had the underwood's, and to think we could type upwards of eighty words a minute. . .
Yes 80 wpm.
I never could but I seen some that could. The typewriter would sound like a machine gun and a boom when the carriage return was used.
Oh they were fun times, I think our school had Imperial, Olivetti and Underwood, I mainly used an Imperial. Once you learn to touch type on one of those you never forget.
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