Off-Topic Typewriters

[bzar]

Originally Posted by KarenJo

Erasable Bond - the only typing paper I used but I had terrible accuracy.

i liked this too - if you erased, the tiny pieces of rubber would get inside of the typewriter, so i usually rolled the paper up or down so that it would get swept outside of the machine immediately after you erased something. some bond paper was smudgy too - had to be careful.

selectric: my first experience - i got to use one as a student employee in college. in the beginning, pica or elite was machine-specific. in other words, you couldn't use a pica element in an elite machine. very quickly, IBM made a machine that was compatible with both element types which made sense. "prestige elite" was the element/font of choice that our secretary asked us to use to make all documents uniform.