[PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal

[Bob Rathke]

We had two of those S-C portables, an S-C word processor and an IBM Selectric with extra cassette ribbons and print balls.  These typewriters hadn't been used for 20-30 years and no one wanted them, so three years ago I donated everything to a charity thrift shop and the typewriters promptly disappeared from the store shelf. 

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From: "PC" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> 
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 12:12:40 PM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 

Smith Corona portable, removable from case: 

http://tinyurl.com/l8fakfb 

http://tinyurl.com/lffsljd 

http://tinyurl.com/SC-SC-03 

It was a gift about 1960; served extremely well.  I believe mine had the open ribbon, not the cartridge. 

I was given an electric typewriter with parallel connection for computer, removable daisy-wheel.  It gave crisper type than the dot-matrix but could not 'justify' well; documents looked like Swiss cheeze. 

PC 


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On Mon, 10/28/13, PC <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote: 

 Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
 To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
 Date: Monday, October 28, 2013, 4:23 AM 
  
 Very practical advice Mr.Brannon.  :-)  We have and are literally putting all our eggs in one basket are we not.  We can not function without some electronic aid to store our phone numbers, take notes, etc.  I wonder how sales of pens and pencils are faring these days. 
  
 Will Underwood do?  I can not remember my last machine.  It was an electric portable, at least portable at the time it was purchased. 
  
  
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 On Sun, 10/27/13, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote: 
  
  Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
  To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
  Date: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 8:27 PM 
   
  Keep those Hermes Rockets* and Royal Safaris* at the ready................it may all come crashing down one of these days. 
   
  *Hermes Rocket and Royal Safari=Brands of portable manual typewriter available in the late 1960s, 
   
   
  On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:57 PM, PC <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote: 
   
  > This gives a nice thumbnail understanding of internet beginnings doesn't it. 
  > 
  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet 
  > 
  > Not military. 




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