I'm so old I Remember when:

[kikiruru]

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

I remember taking typing in 10th grade learning on an electric typewriter and we had erasers with what looked like a tiny broom on the other end to brush away the erasure particles left in the typewriter after you erased your mistake(s)

 

[kikiruru]

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

I remember that purple stuff they used to make copies too

I have not thought about in over 50 years.

I remember I liked the smell

 

[kikiruru]

I remember that projector kind of like machine that was on a rolling cart
that the teacher would write on transparent film and it rolled like in a tube and it would project what she wrote on the wall or black board or a screen
And the students could also use it to write out the math problem or diagram a sentence

And some teachers had already written on it and they would just turn the roll as they taught

Maybe there were used when the teacher or student had a chalk dust allergy because not every teacher had one

I remember taking the erasers outside an hitting them together to clean out the chalk dust before soaking them in water and helping the teacher wash down the chalk boards with a giant sponge on a stick

 

[kikiruru]

Before whiteout, we used white tape. You had to backspace to the error, carefully place the tape over your mistake and type the exact same thing overtop the regular ink. You had to hope, pray and cross your fingers that everything lined up properly. One minor shift and your error would show through when you retyped the correct word over your mistake!

And the blue copies were mimeographs. Mimeograph machines were a LOT of fun to run. You had to spin a handle to run each blank page over a barrel. We LOVED to help the teacher run copies. That lovely, toxic blue ink smelled WONDERFUL!

Mimeographs I remember spinning the handle and I had forgotten on previous post but I did remember that smell

 

[RoyalChick]

I remember taking typing in 10th grade learning on an electric typewriter and we had erasers with what looked like a tiny broom on the other end to brush away the erasure particles left in the typewriter after you erased your mistake(s)

Yup. Have a bunch of those somewhere in the back of a drawer.

 

[kikiruru]

Oh, that purple ink was heavenly!

Good to know that I was not the only one who loved that smell

 

[kikiruru]

I remember he was my first concert that I went to as a teeny bopper going with the older teens

I remember after Bobby Sherman
David Cassidy
KC and the Sunshine Band

 

[kikiruru]

Yup. My typing speed went way up on the electric ball thing. But I had to learn not to thump the keys as hard as I did on my trusty manual.

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[LaurenRitz]

Yup. My typing speed went way up on the electric ball thing. But I had to learn not to thump the keys as hard as I did on my trusty manual.

40 words per minute was impossible, the way those keys tangled. Using a keyboard I do at least 60 wpm. That thing, it was more like 10.

Funny story. When typewriters were first introduced the letters were in alphabetical order. But as speeds increased typing speeds increased also, resulting in more jams. Rather than redesigning the system they put all the letters on random keys so the typists had to hunt for the letters, thus reducing their typing speed.

 

[kikiruru]

I remember I had a 'Camaro
And if I was in the right lane at a red light and there was a guy next to me
I would rev up my engine like I wanted to race
And when he would take off
I would make a right turn and
I thought that was the funniest

That was back in the early eighties when I was much younger