Manual Typewriter

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Manual Typewriter

The boys had been up in the attic together helping with some
cleaning. The kids uncovered an old manual typewriter and
asked her, "Hey, Mom, what's this?"

"Oh, that's an old typewriter," she answered, thinking that
would satisfy their curiosity.

"Well, what does it do?" they queried.

"I'll show you," their mother said. She went downstairs and
returned with a blank piece of paper. She rolled the paper
into the typewriter and began striking the keys, leaving
black letters of print on the page.

"WOW!" the boys exclaimed, "That's really cool -- but how
does it work like that? Where do you plug it in?"

"There is no plug," she answered. "It doesn't need a plug."

"Then where do you put the batteries?" they persisted.

"It doesn't need batteries either," she continued.

"Wow! This is so cool!" the brothers exclaimed. "Someone
should have invented this a long time ago!" :smiley:

[MajestyJo]

Love it, the first one I used was black, could see inside, had posts and the keys had steel rings around them. It was short lived and I was a file clerk at 17 in 1959. Even the electronic typewriter is so outdated now. I was an office manager (Girl Friday) and a secretary in 1988. I used a computer which was in a room the size of my bedroom in the 70s and used the telex and the telecopier which were before the fax. Gosh I am old. roflmao!