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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SmoothSail who wrote (175065)	2/8/2009 8:34:29 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

I sold the old Royal Typewriter with the ribbon cans on top, I thought to Mike's Second Hand Store. Then about 25 years later in the same store I saw what seemed to be a dead ringer for it, and I was sure it was the same one. How cool to reclaim the typewriter where I wrote all my term papers. So I had to have it. Paid $25. Boxed it up, and then about ten years later opened it to type envelopes with. But it didn't work. It typed OK, but wouldn't advance to the next line with the carriage return. So I donated it to a charity as an antique, which it really was. I was sorry that it wouldn't function, because I wanted to use it. I never have fond feelings about computers I have earned. I bought a Kaypro back in 84. It ended up as a take-apart project for my daughter's 3rd grade class. It still worked, but was essentially worthless by then.