The typewriter revolution
Like so many things as a kid typewriters were a curiosity. We had an antique Royal that I was totally fascinated with, it had beautiful beveled windows in the side that you could see the inner workings. It was replaced with a cheap nasty plastic suitcase typewriter that just wasn't the same. But progress being what it was the Royal had a date with the dump, I was sad and totally broken hearted when it made the crashing tumble into the "pit". We attempted recovery not realizing how special it was to me but at 5-6 it was an immovable object and was so mangled and broken it would never work again. My handwriting is terrible, always has been. I started to learn to properly use a typewriter in about the third grade. Right about the time computers were starting to come into use with their nasty, noisy dot matrix printers. In middle and high school I only used the word processor as much as I had to, still preferring the typewriter. I think...