I love the fact that you've ended up with a similar style to Technology Connections, but with a good AkBKuKu twist! Loving it. Looking great and with a fantastic script to boot!
"Slow-motion Selectric".... sounds like a band name. I remember programming letters into the Personal Wheelwriter. We had some promotional letters to go out (this was probably 1989 or 1990) and I programmed in the bulk of the letter into the Wheelwriter, which would type up to the adressee's name, wait for the info to be typed in, then type the remainder of it.
Nice CGR hat, one of the first RU-vid channels I watched. Great video, typewriters in the 80s get looked over as computers almost immediately overtook them in most large businesses, if the printer typewriter ran on batteries so it could be used anywhere I imagine it would've been a popular item in the early 80s at the right price!
I recall my mother using regular white correction fluid to correct any mistakes she made. I was aware that ribbons with two colours have existed, but I had no idea about the ones with the correction feature instead of the red ink. Great video, thanks for putting it together :)
I was wondering if these dual ribbons aren't quite a waste, because if they would both roll and unroll synchronously, only one ribbon would be used at a time and the other one just spooled forward. As a correcting ribbon or a red ribbon is not used as often as the black one, it would be barely used when the black one is depleted.
Some Olivetti typewriters (like lettera 36) had a correction tape that worked like this but was detached from the main ribbon and engaged only when you pressed a correction button. This way you could use red, black and correction altogether.
I enjoy all your videos. They are actually quite good including this one and your way of presenting them makes them interesting to watch and not boring at all.
I've seen your face a view times on your channel and I have to say it always throws me for a loop! Not that it's a bad face, I wouldn't know I'm a hetero male, it's just not the face I imagine when I hear you speak! I do have to say it's nice to see you on camera, thumbs up for a good change of format!
Your videos astound me! I love the pt1 & pt2 videos on this correcting series!! I love typewriters and I’ve learned so much from watching your videos💗💗💗💗💗 Type on!!!
Hardly see mostly electric collectors, that's cool! I have seen the fabric ribbons with the correction tape on a lot of 1930s typewriters even. I am a professional repair tech, so I tear these machines down and repair them. The white pigment tends to crumble with age and gets into the mechanisms gumming everything up.
Looking great and damn you have a good voice,i just wouldn’t have guessed that this voice is coming out of you,i imagined a news anchor wearing suits. Keep up the good work.
I remember when my parents had an IBM Selectric in the 80's and 90's, and they had constant problems with it and were always having to get it fixed. To this day, my mom remembers how much she hated it! I like collecting typewriters, but I'll pass on the Selectric!
I love typewriters. I love the format of your channel. I would love to collect typewriters but I just don't have the room. I have nearly 100 vintage computers. I have them coming out of everywhere. lol.
I've always been fascinated by typewriters, and have owned a few over the years, but just don't have the room to keep them around, other than one ancient Underwood (which still works!) Cool video!
Very interesting,i had just found a staedtler correcting wheel in a box and didnt know what it was so ended up here,great explanations and for some reason i have an lcd typewriter that i bought as ex display but never used it as it was heavy on batteries and never came with mains lead or instructions the things we do eh.thanks👍
A great video! I like this new format very much. And if it includes typewriters, it's even better. ;-) I wasn't even aware that there were correcting ribbons with white ink on fabric. Pretty cool. If I may put a request here: Would you consider making at least a short section about that Pickett slide rule behind you? I'd appreciate seeing the slide rule and, of course, its box and whatever is included. :-)
I do want to do a video on the slide rule at some point. It's a really nice example and I have everything for it. When I am completely comfortable with using it I will do a video on it giving a full demonstration.
@@TechTangents Getting completely comfortable with it will definitely take quite a while :-) But I get the point. Slide rules aren't as easy as they appear. Professor Herning's videos helped me a lot, although I concentrate more on European slide rules so far. I do have a couple of Pickett slide rules. I'm not sure about how to feel about the aluminium they used. Still feels strange. Looking forward to your slide rule video!
Interesting to see that dual correction ribbon! I have a Smith-Corona Corrector 12 (which is a manual machine) that was designed to take that style of ribbon. It hasn’t been available new for years so I’ve never seen it in action. Mine is fitted with the red/black!
My mother was a typist. She had an Olivetti Lettera and when something wrong was typed, she used to turn back to the location where she mistyped, then placed a candy paper (like the ones where Adam's Trident Gum is wrapped) above the character, type another character and BOOM, it was gone.
Ha, I recall me mother having a (possibly) late 70s/early 80s electric typewriter (with a cooling fan and a nice red LED for power) that had the split black 'n' white ribbon. I was wondering 'why am I watching this' and then the memory hit me and 'ooh, that's why'. My dad (who had split from my mum at the time) also had a Brother electronic typewriter with the 'visible buffer' as well, which was interesting to use - and yes, he stopped using it as soon as he got a PC with a printer and a copy of Star Office. Ah, nostalgia is a dangerous thing. (both parents are dead now, and both typewriters are in the bin, natch)
Have you heard of the IBM quitewriter? It was quite neat with it’s thermal printing ability on normal paper. It’s correcting method is a bit odd too. I’ve got this model and the “ink” smells like photocopier toner. I believe the toner is fused onto the paper and this process can be undone. Another neat feature are the font packs that you can switch between. To top it off it also has the spelling correct feature and a printer function. Sadly I don’t have the manual for it but it seems quite an advanced model.
I think the typewriter that I learned touch typing on (why a professional service would use typewriters in early 2000 is beyond me...) would just cover every letter with a square of white- like you would do with manual correction tapes for handwriting- so they didn't have to remember what letter you typed- I think it was a Olivetti typewriter
I have seen a typewriter in the nineties (1996-ish) that could go back to at least a few lines, had a font that was propotional (an m was about three i-s wide), and it could not be outpaced by normal typing. It was ridiculously quick and really awesome, I don't recall the brand, maybe it was an IBM.
This reminded me that I tried the manual typewriter correcting ribbon before. The two halves separated pretty early on, I think, and the white ink leaves a crust on the ribbon guides. Now I simply X out mistakes which is good enough typing for fun.
I have an Olivetti M40 manual typewriter, which predates WW2 by several years, and it supports double-colored ribbon: you can change the ribbon position using a blue and a red key on the keyboard itself. (So, I guess Italians did it earlier... I couldn't find references about other makers)
OOOH YEEEEEEE BOIII I have to blame you AkBKukU, it was your fault and your videos that made me drop 30€ of an electric typewriter! I got a kind of weird unit to be frank, an Olivetti Personal 510-II, which has a QZERTY layout, the M is not where you expect to be and has the € key despite being a 1998 model! But it has the line memory function like your IBM, it does let you delete a single letter or word with a single key press. You can also still delete wrong letters/mistyping from previous lines manually by going to the letter you want, press a weird button sequence and then the letter to remove.
Not in my general interest but I actually enjoyed this. Keep it up please ! Thanns ... backspace / switch color / "n" / backspace / switch colour / "k" / space / "."
I have a fully manual Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter with three ribbon selectors: black and red shift the ribbon around like your Smith-Corona, and white doesn't lift the ribbon at all. Information I found online says it's for stencil work, but I'm not sure how that would work
Just a thought: if two-color typewriters had a block-character, you could make second-color on first-color or vice versa text where needed. (EG: typing 7 block-characters in black to form a bar followed by typing " BLEEP " in white over it for comedic censor effect)
The galaxy deluxe looks very similar to the Smith Corona typewriter my grandfather used to have. It's packed up somewhere so I can't check the exact model number though.
hello, i have a typewriter that as a dedicated spool for correcting. so it has the tipical black and red spool and also a correcting one. the correcting spoll is very tiny.
I was a terrible typist. I used to smuggle into typing class a special paper called EzErase that would not dry the ink or something. It let you wipe off errors with a soft pencil eraser. Almost got away with it but the stuff was water marked and the teacher knew it.
I once found an old royal typewriter with settings for black, red _and_ white. It ended up in the scrap pile due to the fact that it was severely corroded.
I’m not a very big fan of the black/white correcting ribbons for standard manual typewriters. The white correcting film has a tendency to shed over time and flake off inside the machine making a terrible mess. Cleaning all that white crud out (before it starts gumming up the mechanism) is very time consuming and annoying so I prefer to run standard single color black or black/red ribbons in my manual typewriters.
This video has actually been "done" for over a month. But the last part delayed it while I recorded new footage. But I did 100% hold off on releasing it yesterday.
I think we need to start an intervention.....you have enough typewriters, typewriters cant bring you love or happiness. On the other hand, hookers and alcohol, that'll work! ;) Love it when ppl have a passion (not referring to hookers and alcohol :) ) and geek out.
