Underwood No. 5

[cheesy]

It's a typewriter.


It's 92 years old and works. Now. Just needed a good cieaning and lube job.

Serial number dates it from 1928.

There's a database for almost everthing.

As mentioned in the 'What did you buy today' thread, I fixed this up is because I needed an old timey typewriter to do a part of Mrs. Cs' Xmas present. She is a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, so I got her a years' worth Holmes interactive mysteries that arrive at home via a snail mail letter every couple of weeks. She is suppose to assist in solving the mystery.
Because I have the game starting in January, the company I bought it from provides a cover letter in old timey typewriter font, dated 1901 to give her at Christmas.
This is where the typewriter comes in. Besides retyping the original cover letter, I will be doing an envelope addressed to her with the Baker Street return address and a real 1901 King Edward one penny stamp and put that under the tree.

I practiced on the beast this afternoon. My fingers are sore.

[Sport Rider]

talk about causing carpel tunnel!

[Landsvw]

Oooh cool! I bought a 1935 one last spring to show my students! In my classroom. Before Covid, I couldn’t keep them away from it. They loved clacking on the keys.

[cheesy]

Well, when you get back in the classroom, add a rotary phone, an AM only transistor radio, and a pre UHF tv with rabbit ears. If you are teaching pre-teens, you can tell that they would have been the tv remote.

[cheesy]

The Sherlock Holmes thing went over pretty well with Mrs. C. I couldn't just do the letter so I did a themed set of gifts to go with the letter. I put the letter in the bottom of a gift bag and stacked the wrapped ones on top of it. It went English Breakfast Tea, a china tea cup and saucer, magnifying glass, leather bound journal, grey woolen shawl, Deer Stalker Hat, and finally, the letter. She raised an eyebrow at the magnifying glass but got it at the Deer Stalker.
She told me she had seen the Holmes thing and thought about getting it for Eli, but like most folks our age, the thought flashed and disappeared. She also wanted to know what program I used to type the envelope, because it looked so perfect. I asked her if she hadn't missed the old typewriter because I fixed it.
She wants to know where I got the Deer Stalker so she can get one for Eli. He loves solving puzzles, so they are going to work on the cases together.

Owen and I will go to the races.

[Wild Dog]

Is it USB-C? does it have quick charge???

When I was a child, I was fascinated with typewriters. I just loved the sound they made, that's why i use mechanical keyboards not the same but it can mimic the sound.

[wheelbender6]

Anybody know how many calories per hour are burned using the old manual, non-assisted typewriters? They are a lot smaller than most exercise equipment.