Another interesting, non hearse related, find.

[Psychoholic]

Nikki and I were trying to find some metal tins for her to give home made soap out for Christmas (she's making me some shaving soap too) and we ended up at an antique shop - tucked in a little alcove was this little gem.
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It's a 1921 Woodstock Standard Typewriter Model No. 5. I've almost got it working - I'm still trying to figure out the escapement that advances the carriage, but as soon as I've got that whooped it should be ready to go. Obviously I'll need to get some new ink ribbons for it. This thing has some of the coolest gears in it.

[tonytheskin]

Is it 3g or 4g, how's the signal at your house?

[Psychoholic]

The new releases of carrier standards average 9 years, this thing would be -9.89G

[Mohawk Freak]

That is cool. I've got an old Underwood about the same vintage. Thing weighs a ton. Scored a cool little retro table @ the dump made for a typewriter, 1930s maybe. Sits on it perfect. Don't feel technologically intimidated by it either.

[Scary Guy]

QWERTY layout FTL. I mean it was designed that way so that jamming would stop because typists got too proficient at their jobs. That carried over to computers and it's kind of a horrible system we still use today. Not to mention we're all used to that so the old typewriters will still jam if you use them today unless they're the really old ones.

The Dvorak is vastly superior, wish i knew how to use one though. My friend switched and it's faster for him now.

[Morella]

Wow...the word processor of the future draws its energy directly from the user! Wait, that's from the past.

I use an AZERTY keyboard, but that's so I can make characters like these. éèçàêîâ Otherwise, I would have to buy a French typewriter, or change the little ball with the letters on it (IBM electrics), to type in French, instead of just pressing shift-alt. Windows is awesome for language support...when I started learning German, all I had to do to make it type German was click on languages in the control panel and add German as a language. Now I can type this stuff too. äölü Sheiß and I don't have to have any balls. I think that's good.