Wasted time -database frusration

LOL, and Typewriters have been around since 1868!

 

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Our family visited a small, county museum that had a very nice exhibit on the old days. Included among the displays was a typewriter exactly like the one my wife used in college in the 1960's. My grandson thought the exhibit was interesting since it showed so many things that he had never seen. We found the exhibit a bit less interesting and a bit too much like things in our attic. At 14, he had a nice visit with his 102 y.o. great-grandmother who showed him treasures from her past including many things he had not experienced. There were boxes of post cards with 2 cents postage on them. The space for writing on them is very similar to the limits for Twitter but some of us could write small and get twice as much in for our two cents. She has trouble understanding why he does not want one of the pocket knives left over from before I was born (carrying one to school would get him expelled these days). She also had white-out; I still own part of a box of Corrasable Bond paper. Time flies. We get the same thing here when we find people who define ancients as coins before they were born. Some things I do not miss. Manual typewriters are on that list.

 

This was the model of Royal Typewriter that I used during my University days in the 70's, including my Resumes, and when I owned my first company. Loved that little thing, but typing was an ENORMOUS chore for me! Finally upgraded to an ELECTRIC Typewriter in Mid-80's... Felt that I stepped up to the 20th Century then! I wish I still had this original one...


This is kinda like some of the original Ancient RR corrency before they had 'round' money:


Aes Formatum ITALIA AE Bronze Ax Head ca 5th-4th C BCE 44-8mm 56g


Aes Formatum Oscan-Latin shell with Ribs obv-rev 4th BCE

I gotta get these into my database. @Carthago got me into FM , but have been a little diverted (or lazy) recently to get it done...

 

Or how about using in class for a Georgia Tech April Fool's joke? Apparently, according to a friend, I was all over Instagram that day...



I love my typewriter more than I really should...

 

LOL, I am glad you said it was an April Fools joke. In this day and times, I would had been VERY worried about you... What is Instagram?

 

I also brought it in to celebrate the last day of classes.

And I still don't really know what Instagram is. I just know it exists.

 

That thing must be almost as loud as a cellphone ringing.

Insta gram - the moment you put your coin on a scale and instantly get the weight in grams. jk

 

LOL! Insta Gram!

 

It's louder.

 

Is it louder?

 

Looks like its so loud its creating an echo.

 

My 'puter duplicated my post four times. My typewriter never does that.

 

Mine does when I've had too much coffee

 

Mine does when I have too much beer.

 

You should see what it does on pain pills. lol

 

Computers often do exactly what we tell them to do. That is quite possibly their greatest fault. It is rather like trying to tell a joke to someone who either has no sense of humor or speaks the language only in the most literal contexts.

 

I actually put mine in Word,
then export as PDF
which finds itself on my iPhone iBooks Library so I can easily review what i have and what I'm missing. This let's me make more informed decisions if I see some coin that I think I need/missing.

 

Winner!