[FC] what'a typewriter?

Tue Aug 10 15:49:00 2004

There has to be a Country and Western song in there somewhere.... "one
finger pecker".... somebody call Ray Stevens or Jim Stafford!
toodles
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Galli" <rdgalli@tcsn.net>
To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] what'a typewriter?

> Actually, the "typewriter" was a Smith-Corona PWP 50D Word Processor. This
> was to replace the "Brothers" WP that the Corvanatics Group authorized
> Caroline Silvey to purchase in about 1993. When Diane took over the
> Sec/treas job in 1995, Tom and Caroline shipped us all the Corvanatics
> stuff, and the "Brothers" unit was seriously damaged in shipment. I bought
> the S/C unit and learned to type on it. It had 30K of memory. It proved to
> be a means to bring me into the 20th century as far as correspondence
goes.
> I had never learned typing. I am still a one finger pecker, but it gets
the
> job done. From there, a few years later, I got introduced to Microsoft
Works
> 4.0, and do all the Rosters, UV Directories, Address labels, Vairfest
> Registrations with that. I am resisting all the later upgrades to this, as
I
> am a slow learner, and the upgrades seem to be a whole new world to learn.
I
> am just now comfortable with Works 4.0, and learn new things about it
every
> now and then.
>       I still use the S/C unit when I need a single address label
>        Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis & Debbie Pleau" <ddpleau@earthlink.net>
> To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [FC] what'a typewriter?
>
>
> > I was just funning, I even have a few slide rules around somewhere.
> >
> > dp
> >
> > At 07:14 PM 8/9/2004, you wrote:
> > >In a message dated 8/9/2004 7:46:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > >ddpleau@earthlink.net writes:
> > >What'a a typewriter?
> > >
> > >dp
> > >
> > >Dennis,
> > >I have one of those... a Royal #10, from sometime in the early 1920s I
> > >believe... I did all my papers in college on it, before I got a
computer.
> > >I used to have more typewriters than Corvairs at one time. Now I only
> have
> > >the one, and 3 'vairs...
> > >BTW, it still works....
> > >;-)
> > >Later,
> > >Lonzo
> > >
> > >
> > >Lon Anderson in White Mills, KY
> > >CORSA, Corvanatics, Central Kentucky Corvair, Derby City Corvair
> > >Quart Low Quarterly editor
> > >1961 Greenbrier pg, daily driver
> > >1963 Greenbrier 4spd.
> > >1964 700 sedan 95/pg
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