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    • RonSR Offline
      RonS
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      When you start to get out of the cities in the rural areas is where you start seeing the most. Although I seen allot of medical offices and even hospitals still using them in the cities. Here where I am in PA the bigger hospitals are just starting to go paperless. Even the office I work in has three of them. We use them for last minute entries on bid forms or if the server goes down. Seems that some people just do not trust technology or just will not change with the times.

      Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
      Steve Jobs

      RonS

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        tomsdesk
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        The use I've most seen (in a good 50% of architectural offices) is for mailing labels.

        http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
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          Gidon Yuval
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          I don't know about you guys but I find these old typewriters to be very usefull! ๐Ÿ˜†

          (my appologies Ron. Lovely model.)

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          • RonSR Offline
            RonS
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            Well it does make a nice center arrangement. ๐Ÿ˜„

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            • boofredlayB Offline
              boofredlay
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              @tomsdesk said:

              The use I've most seen (in a good 50% of architectural offices) is for mailing labels.

              That is what we use ours for.

              http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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              • N Offline
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                @tomsdesk said:

                The use I've most seen (in a good 50% of architectural offices) is for mailing labels.

                How quaint. So then, word has not yet reached the architectural community that Avery and various other knockoff brands have been selling sheets of die-cut mailing labels for use in printers for the last twenty years or so? Also, there are these cunning little single-label printers you can get for around $40 if business is slow. Of course, they don't work unless you hook them up to a computer.

                -Gully

                poster-Gully Foyle

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                • jujuJ Offline
                  juju
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                  A fat lot computers help if there is no power (as in power outage). Even though I consider an UPS as an intergral part most ppl don't. Even if you got a UPS on the setup, most ppl don't hook up their printers to it as it is generally non-essential. I got an old typewriter in my office, really just taking up space, but it is there if the need arises...

                  Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                    I'm having trouble visualizing people sitting in the dark pounding away on typewriters, at least where I work. If the power goes out, we pretty much clear the building, and if it looks like it won't be restored quickly, we go home.

                    -Gully

                    Edit: By the way, JuJu, the title of this thread is Electric Typewriter.

                    poster-Gully Foyle

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                    • jujuJ Offline
                      juju
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                      lol, yeah Gully, thx for reminding me.

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                        Will03
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                        Before I got a computer at home, my parents taught me how to type on their type writer. When we finally did get a computer (pentium 186 as I recall...) I still preferred to write on the typewriter, i much prefer the feeling and sound of typewriters, even though I can type 10x faster on a computer (plus this little backspace tool is great!)

                        Thanks for the model!

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                        • jujuJ Offline
                          juju
                          last edited by

                          Your computer has a backspace feature?! o_O

                          Just messing with you, also one of the things I appreciate most about working on a computer, the backspace and undo / redo functions rate amongst the highest with me.

                          Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                          • boofredlayB Offline
                            boofredlay
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                            I don't see a need for the Backspace/Undo/Redo as I never make a mistake ๐Ÿ˜

                            http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                            • jujuJ Offline
                              juju
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                              ORLY?! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                              If you say so... ๐Ÿ˜’

                              ๐Ÿ˜‰

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