Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Authors and their Typewriters

By: klaird

klaird — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:26:09 +0000

LOL – “so every time I go past it I have to hit the button that makes it go “Ding!” It’s driving my husband crazy.”

I can just picture this happening in my house too!

I used to prefer to type on an old antique typewriter at my job in high school, even though the office I worked in had a fancy electric typewriter that I could have used. I loved the feel of the keys and the “click clack ding” sounds of an old manual typewriter!

By: dano

dano — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:26:33 +0000

I have read very few well written novels
since computers. I have read a lot of long winded, verbose garbage though, and why do I have a feeling the top publishing houses are run by women–now?
A lot of feminine prose out there. There’s something to raw testosterone
rushing through your brain and a cup of coffee besides you typewriter–along with a slight hangover to produce some works of art? Maybe?

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:31:10 +0000

I do occasional features, Typewriter of the moment. Jack Kerouac, Alfred Hitchcock, Faulkner and Hemingway, and Steve Allen have been featured.

Come over to Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub (www.timpanogos.wordpress.com), and do a search for “typewriter.”

I’ve had two IBM Correcting Selectric IIs, but you can’t get them repaired any more, in my experience. I have a manual Underwood, and have used Underwood and Royal manuals, and Olivetti and IBM electrics.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:40:00 +0000

My boyfriend gave me a 1937 Underwood Noiseless for Christmas a couple years ago (it’s how I knew he was a keeper). I found that calculator ink ribbon (I got mine for $5 at Office Max) fits it just fine, as long as you don’t mind rewinding the spools yourself. I love my typewriter…it lives in my dorm room with me and creates a lot of conversation!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:01:00 +0000

I found a very old Royal (non-portable) to give to my boyfriend for his birthday. Great condition, despite the fact that it took a tumble down some stairs with me. (My finger broke its fall. Its fall broke my finger.)

Shockingly, I found ribbons at Staples, but they may be cheaper online.

By: Herb Behrens

Herb Behrens — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:33:00 +0000

What is your source for the John Steinbeck reference? I thought he used an Olivetti? The Martha J. Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca has one of John’s typewriters. I think he also had an early electric typewriter.

Herb Behrens

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Old Typewriter Supplies
Stop the search, we have hard to find typewriter ribbons – In Stock.
http://www.fjaproducts.com
Would this help?

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:23:00 +0000

Yay for this post. I love typewriters. If you still have the ribbon spool that came with the typewriter, you can buy new ribbon at Office Depot and wind it yourself. The standard half red, half black kind that is 1/2 inch wide (I think) fits most typewriters. If you don’t have the spool, a generic spool might fit, but some models are tricky and require a particular spool. If that’s the case, there are specialty stores online that sell original spools or replicas.

By: EMStoveken

EMStoveken — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:25:00 +0000

My wife just got me an antique Olympia manual typewriter for an early father’s day present. It feels so good to have a big clunky manual typewriter operating again. Makes the whole act of writing a lot more kinetic and involved.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:59:00 +0000

Oh! I love this post! I’m obsessed with typewriters. I went to the flea market and bought a typewriter for fifteen bucks.
And I found out it was worth like 445 bucks. They sell them everywhere in Mexico, since the country hasn’t completely moved towards newer technology.