# Do you still use a typewriter? What brand?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 3, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590 "2000-11-03T19:15:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/1 "2000-11-03T19:15:26Z")
I still have an IBM Selectric II, for rough copies and envelopes. I understand that typewriters are almost obsolete.
Who is still typing in the dark ages?
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### Author:  [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/2 "2000-11-03T19:20:34Z")
Typewriter? …? Is that kinda like those things you sometimes see in those old black and white movies?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/3 "2000-11-03T19:21:49Z")
Smith-Corona. I had a Selectric for a while but I’m still too poor a typist to use it well. It’s like driving a Ferrari when you are used to a Honda Civic.
I found when taking one class that I finished the weekly short papers faster when I typed them instead of word processing them. Not being able to go back and polish my work forced me to think through what I said before I typed it.
Letter Gothic, BTW. Same font as I use in DOS word processors.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/4 "2000-11-03T19:25:24Z")
I have to use a word processor for business purposes, but I do have a 1920s Royal I love—one of those big ol’ two-ton things that really makes clackety-clack noises when you use it.
I need the spools fixed, though, and despair of finding anyone to do it (it weighs a ton, I can’t exactly lug it around . . . ).
Oh, yeah, I also have a working 1919 candlestick telephone!
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/5 "2000-11-03T23:43:48Z")
Eve, you are my typewriter doppelganger - I have a 40s-era Royal manual typewriter. I am planning to write my Booker Prize-winning novel on it. It is so nice to type on … there is time to _think_ of the best word to use.
My mom bought it at the Goodwill for $3.00 and restored it to shining magnificence. It works perfectly and is beautiful to look at to boot.
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### Author:  [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/6 "2000-11-04T03:06:46Z")
I’ve got a Brother typewriter that I use for HW sometimes… it’s got a little lcd moniter and all that.
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### Author:  [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/7 "2000-11-04T23:05:18Z")
I’ve got a Smith-Corona with a built-in spelling dictionary.
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### Author:  [@mske](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mske)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-use-a-typewriter-what-brand/39590/8 "2000-11-04T23:11:11Z")
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> Smith-Corona. I had a Selectric
Have one of these too. Still use it on occasion. There is something intimidating of not having a truly functional backspace key…