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My daughter is wanting to type on a actual typewriter, looking online at stores or on ebay, they are not as cheap as I hoped for. I have a limit of at least 30.00-40.00. I know it's not much but have looked at garage sales to and no luck yet.

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i actually had a similar problem to you a few months ago. i needed a regular typewriter and looked high and low…and then i could have totally smacked myself when i thought of two places i hadn't looked, goodwill stores (or the like) and pawnshops. nearly every goodwill in my city had typewriters (some of them still had usable ribbon), and about half of the pawnshops had them as well. I ended up getting one at goodwill for 12 dollars. just make sure you test the typewriter before you buy. you don't want to buy one that has stuck keys or whatnot.

for extra ribbons, you can always look online.

You can also check Freecycle or Craigslist.

If you have an answer for both electronic typewriters and old-fashioned that would be great

hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same I must be going. Ta Ta.

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Yes, after 40 months and 80 articles, this will be my farewell column on MousePlanet. What a past couple of weeks it’s been, huh? First, we said goodbye to Charlie Sheen. Then, it was Oprah. We even had the coming and going of the end of the world in there. Now… me? Yes, I blame global warming.

I thought about beginning this column with “Now it’s time to say goodbye to all our company…” Hopefully, you remember that sign off from the Mickey Mouse Club? Yeah, it’s a tired phrase and has probably been used by every Disney writer who has ever moved on—but it’s certainly fitting.

instead, I opted for the lines, above, voiced by Groucho Marx in the film Animal Crackers—and no, I’m not quite old enough to have seen it in its initial release but thanks for asking. I first heard it years ago as the intro to a radio show and, somehow, I find the lyrics fitting. plus, when I hear them delivered by Groucho, they always make me chuckle.

Truth be told, I’m not very good at saying, “Goodbye”—it’s never been my strong suit. I much prefer slinking out the door muttering, “see ya later” to the few within earshot. Nevertheless, because I’m moving on, I feel an obligation to sign off and say, “Thanks” to the great many people that have made my brief stint at MousePlanet so enjoyable.

You’re probably asking why I would even think of giving up a gig as rewarding as this one. A reader once wrote and told me I had the perfect job: I’m paid for voicing my opinions. When you put it like that, I can understand why you might be suspicious of my sanity.

the bottom line is that it’s mainly a time issue—as in there’s just not enough of it for me to devote the time necessary to turn these articles out on a bi-weekly basis. “Pshaw” you might say (if you do, indeed, use the word “pshaw” in your conversation), “I’ve read your drivel and it can’t take you more than five minutes to turn out this gibberish.” Unfortunately, at least for me, that’s not the case. Allow me to explain my process….

First, I need to come up with an idea for a column. With the breadth of Disney material out there, you’d think that would be easy. however, in my own weird way, I’d like the column premise to be fresh and at least somewhat original. In our Disney on-line community, there are no fewer than 81 billion websites, podcasts and blogs—finding something original to write about is not quite the piece of cake it seems, particularly for someone as un-clever as I am.

sometimes, Disney cooperates and gives me the chance to provide an opinion on something newly announced, like the articles I wrote on Hyperion Wharf or D23. On other occasions, I tried to provide a service by explaining the ins and outs of a few of the more complex things like the Disney Dining Plans (Part 1 and Part 2) or Park Passes (I’m sort of proud of that one and I never really wanted to tackle it). Other articles were born of whimsy like my fictitious interview with Walt Disney (The Interview). the feedback on that one was almost exclusively positive, however, I did receive a couple of dissenting opinions. A few folks wrote telling me I got some of it wrong but they never explained which parts they disagreed with. I’ll be forever curious.

What else? Park Peeves was an idea hatched from watching my fellow guests and it turned into a quasi-franchise. at last count, I have authored four articles (and part of a book) on the subject.

I railed against the Fantasmic! Cutbacks and told you about a Fantasmic! Fiasco. I took a big risk with Back to the Future, which I intended to be a humorous lampooning of some things Disney might have in store for us in the not-too-distant future. many recognized the satire but more than a few thought it was mean-spirited. (Me? Mean-spirited?) I had one email exchange, very early on a Saturday morning, with a West-coaster who thought it was the worst thing he had ever read. Somehow, the conversation turned to golf and we parted on amiable terms but I don’t think he ever appreciated the parody.

So… with this wealth of material out there, why is it so difficult to come up with a fresh topic every two weeks? I can’t tell you how many half-written articles I’ve dumped when I saw the same topic published elsewhere. sometimes I’ll have one “in the can” and ready to publish when I see the same topic covered in another podcast, blog or newsletter—then it’s back to the drawing boards.

the second issue is the time needed for me to actually write the article. I can’t believe that writers ever used typewriters. I’d need gallons of Whiteout and miles of correction tape for each column. I know some of our writers can sit down and type up a column from their head directly into our Content Management system. I need a word processor… on steroids, please. my style, once I have a fresh idea, is to sit down at the computer and write the complete article start to finish. It may only take 15-20 minutes but I typically wind up with somewhere between 1,200 and 1,800 words that, when read, resemble the crazed ramblings of a lunatic on hallucinogens mixed with the random keystrokes from a dozen or so monkeys.

Over the next few days, I’ll open that document several times and review it top to bottom, editing, correcting and enhancing as I go. Each of these sessions will occupy me for 10-30 minutes and, after multiple sessions, the article is now fit (sort of) for human consumption. to say it takes me a while for each article is an understatement.

at this point in my life, real world issues are requiring too much of my time to allow the extensive time required to publish something you might actually read without tsk-tsking uncontrollably as you laugh at my typos and third grade grammar. For these reasons, this column, my 80th here on MousePlanet, will be my last… at least for a while.

Ah, there’s always an “out” isn’t there? I did say, “for a while.” There’s a chance, in the not-to-distant future that my personal situation could change for the better and allow me more time to devote to this particular passion. In a fit of what I can only think of as absolute madness, the MousePlanet management has extended an offer for me to return if and when my situation changes. therefore, you may or may not be rid of me forever.

So… whether this is “So long for now” or “Goodbye forever” I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank a long list of people. I sincerely appreciated the opportunity afforded me to expand my love of all-things-Disney into this writing engagement. For that, I’ll always be grateful to mark Goldhaber and Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix. I thank them for taking a chance on me and hope the product wasn’t too far below their expectations.

Very early in this engagement, Lani Teshima, our Managing Editor, spent an awful lot of time wading through my nonsense to help me find my “voice.” On numerous occasions, Andrew Rich or Tony Phoenix has stepped up to resolve a technical issue or help me figure out the process of uploading photos and generating the code necessary to insert them into my articles. Stephanie Wien has put up with the countless emails I send responding to readers and filtering those down to something manageable for the MousePlanet Mailbag column. last, but certainly not least, Lisa Perkis has had the unenviable task of editing my column so what you see every other Friday is, at the least, readable. I thank you all.

I thank you, my readers. whether you’re one of those who read on a regular basis or just stop by occasionally, I thank you for taking the time. There was a time I thought there might actually be a few dozen of you out there reading and my chest pumped out a bit. Then I asked for your votes for a series of the best of Walt Disney World articles and was astounded when emails poured in by the hundreds—I had no idea.

Special thanks go out to those of you who not only read but also took the time to respond—with either an email or a post on MousePad. I can assure you I read every one of them and tried to reply when possible and appropriate. your feedback, good or bad, is essential. Without it, writing is lonely work. I’m not sure how the other writers feel but I need some confirmation that what I put out there has some merit. if it’s not inspiring some thought, providing a laugh or rousing the need to tell me I’m wrong, I’ve failed.

Finally, I’d like to thank my friends and family who often provided me with concepts for articles and, in many cases, the anecdotes to be used to illustrate a point. I also need to put out a special thanks to my wife who often was asked, “can you read this and tell me if it makes any sense?” It’s not easy being married to me but she does get to go to Walt Disney World fairly frequently.

while I haven’t reached the longevity of a few of my peers and predecessors, I think three-plus years and 80 articles isn’t too shabby a resume. And… who knows? I may not be done yet. at any rate, if you see me in the parks, say “hello.”

as always, thanks for reading.

if you see me in the parks, stop and say, “Hello”. By the way, I’m the one in the back. Photo by Steve Russo.

a case tumbler ( for cleaning brass ) I have a sh@t load of stuff in my garage ( electric motors,typewriter parts ,gears old electric tools etc…Just a whole lot of different odds and ends. so have any of you ever made one ?

Midway has the best deal on a standard tumbler with a separator, wait for it to go on sale. I have three of them.
midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?pr…

If you want to build one try to get a free treadmill off craigslist. Lots of good components.

I have a homemade one that I got at a garage sale. It has 1/2 inch steel rods about 18 inches long with garden hose slid over them. Each end of the rods are in bushings set on a plywood base, about 5 inches apart. It has an old electric motor with a 1 inch pulley and a 4 inch pulley on the rod.

Any cylindrical container will work. a big whey protein isolate container is ideal. Fill it about 1/2 full with brass then up to 2/3 to 3/4 with walnut shell media. You can get media at an industrial polishing or abrasive supply company in 50 pound bags.

You will need some sort of sifter or colander that sits on a bucket to get the shells out of the media. look in the kitchen section of the dollar store.

take a slow running electric motor, a tobacco can and some polishing medium(you need to buy the proper stuff from brass cases).
just connect the can to the motor and throw in the cases and polishing medium, run for a little while and check on it.

I was thinking of making one then I saw this: midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?pr… and purchased it when it went on sale for about $43.

Find a slow turning motor and rig it to turn whatever kind of container you want. Mix your brass in with some walnut shells or chopped up dried corn cobs and let it run.

i have internet job a pdf file convert in to excl file(like name mother meadin name, place, date etc..) the pdf file was typed in typewriter machine and scaned to pdf is there any software i can buy or download please suggest thanks

The PDF file from a scanner is a image-based file that the text is not independent from it. So I think you first need a good OCR program to extract the text in it. Then manually put them in excel spreadsheet.

This may work pdftoexcel.net/

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PUTTING IN CONNECTING-RODS AND LEVERS.

of prejudices as to actual improvements in the machine itself. the typewriter of 1874 and that of to-day are two very different machines. the earliest typewriters printed only capital letters; they were more or less liable to get out of order ; in a word, there have been wonderful improvements, or the machine would not stand where it does to-day.

The construction and operation of the Remington typewriter are so well known that it is not necessary to go into any detailed description. the type arms or bars, each bearing a lower-case letter and its corresponding capital, are thrown up by pianoforte lever action. Each impression causes the frame carrying the rollers which hold the paper sheet to move one space. the types are of tempered steel and are practically indestructible. the principle is clearly shown in the cut on the preceding page. the perfection of its mechanical construction is attested by the immense amount of daily work which the machine does without strain, and by the fact that experts can work the keys so fast as to give clear impressions of a letter at the rate of 13 to a second. Among the improvements of recent years have been the introduction of capital and lower-case letters in the same machine without increasing the number of keys?a radical and vast improvement?the strengthening of the machine, the addition of some parts, the elimination of others. the noise made by the old machine has been greatly lessened, and its liability to get out of order reduced.

THE TYPEWRITER; ITS GROWTH AND USES.

The great factory at Ilion, built up by the Remingtons for making guns, is now employed in making typewriters, which find their way into public use through the houses of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict in the principal cities of the world. In the old days the sword was forged into the ploughshare ; in our day the gun has given way to the typewriter. Perfect as is the present Remington typewriter, however, its owners are by no means ready to rest upon their

A CORNER OF THE ADJUSTING-ROOM.

laurels. In one corner of the great shops at Ilion is an expert to whom are referred the thousands of suggestions concerning the typewriter which are considered worth submitting to him. Of the ten thousand suggestions that come into the main offices from all parts of the world during the year, perhaps one thousand may be worth listening to; of these perhaps one hundred may be worth serious consideration, and of this hundred perhaps ten may result in actual improvements, which are gladly accepted, no matter how minute they may be. most of the changes and improvements effected during the last ten years have been suggested by workmen in the employ of the Remingtons, or of the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. the firm owns or controls a large number of patents upon various devices used in the machine, and as the Remington spreads to every part of the globe, it is not unlikely that this stream of suggestions will continue to grow.

The most elaborate typewriter ever constructed was that made a few months ago for little Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist. It was a Christmas present from Mr. Abbey, his

manager. Every part of the machine had been plated, and a silver plate back of the rubber roll was engraved: “Henry E. Abbey to Josef Hoffman, Christmas, 1887.” On the alligator-leather case was a large silver monogram of the boy’s initials. the first day that the lad got his typewriter he had to be driven back to the piano. after less than two hours practice he wrote letters in several languages to friends in different parts of the world who might not yet know what a typewriter is.

The most remarkable achievement of the typewriter, the chief reason of its success and popularity, has of course been the saving of time effected in business offices. this has now become so well known as to scarcely need argument, and explains the marvelous increase in the sale of Remington typewriters, from 1,400 in 1882 to 14,000 in 1887. according to innumerable tests and to the experience of nine out of ten of our active business houses, the typewriter, as compared to the pen, saves forty minutes an hour, or, to carry out the calculation, five hours and twenty minutes in a business day. In a country like ours, where time means money, it is very easy to estimate how many times the typewriter must pay for itself every year in a busy office. Last summer, in England, miss Emiline S. Owen, who went over to show Englishmen what could be done with the Remington typewriter, wrote for three minutes at a speed of ninety^nine words a minute, the same matter having been previously written out in longhand by Mr. Thomas Allen Reed, one of the most rapid longhand writers in the world, at the unprecedented rate of sixty-five words per minute, the best that he could do.

Mr. E. D. Easton, one of the leading legal stenographers of Washington, in his summary of what the typewriter has done for him, says that in the Guiteau case two operators and machines answered for getting up the copy, one each for an associate reporterand himself. Something like 21,000 folios were transcribed, at a saving over the old method of about four cents per folio, or $840 in three months. In the Star Route cases, which lasted about a year, there were in the neighborhood of 70,000 folios written. the two machines and operators saved about three thousand dollars. In a recorded test made in new York some time ago, miss M. E. Orr wrote an article containing 384 words from dictation, in the presence of witnesses, in four minutes and twenty-nine seconds, without error. the average was 85 words per minute. from familiar matter Mr. Warren Callahan, of Louisville, Mr. F. E. McGurrin, of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Saunders of Brooklyn, and others have written at the rate of more than 100 words per minute.

In the lawyer’s office the typewriter has made possible an amount of work which would have been thought fabulous ten or fifteen years ago. Without exaggeration, it may be said that, thanks to the process by which six or more copies are made at once upon the typewriter, one clerk can do with the machine in a day what would require ten clerks working with the pen, and then the pen work would not be so accurate or so neat. In journalism we find that editors by the score have learned to use the typewriter so as to do infinitely more work with smaller expenditure of time or labor, as compared to pen writing, and in one newspaper office in this city typewriter editorial articles are insisted upon as essential to the correct interpretation of the writer’s copy. Clergymen write their sermons, authors write their books, and editors hurl the thunders of the press with the typewriter.

It is safe to say that with the typewriter will disappear all the extraordinary blunders due to blind handwriting in the hands of equally blind compositors, and had the typewriter been in existence a generation ago, we should not have had some of the historic anecdotes of Horace Greeley and other famous newspaper men whose writing defied all experts. for instance, Greeley would never have written the quotation in the course of an important political article, “‘Tis true ’tis pity, pity ’tis ’tis true,” so that the compositor made it: “‘Tis two ’tis fifty, ’tis fifty-two.” the temperance editor who wrote that ” whisky drinking is folly,” and found it printed: “whisky drinking is jolly,” would not have had to fly from his constituency.

There is also another field from which the typewriter has eliminated blunders. Some years ago a business firm was ruined by the misreading of an order to sell stock ; owing to blind handwriting, the order was construed sell such and such stocks “quickly,” instead of ” quietly.” To-day such a blunder would not occur, thanks to the typewriter.

The aspiring author has his chances vastly improved by being able to present his article or book to the publisher in readable shape. the editor who has used up patience and eyesight upon thousands of illegible manuscripts can not be blamed for reading the articles that come to him in typewriting, and guessing more or less carefully at what the others may contain. Some years ago a magazine article in manuscript was passed around an office in order that the title might be deciphered. the first expert made it: “A Blight in Grain “; the second one: “A Flight in Spain “; the third: “A Night in Pain.” It was referred back to the author, who printed it out: “A Fight in Vain.”

In every large down-town building in new York there are now employed dozens and, in some cases, hundreds of women. one excellent feature of this new profession for women is that it pays according to the skill and education of the person who adopts it. the rewards of teaching are often not in proportion to the knowledge of the teacher. any bright girl in from three to six months may obtain sufficient facility with the typewriter to make herself valuable in an office, and after that everything she does adds so much practice. the salaries of good typewriters average in new York from $15 to $20 a week, the rank and file earning from $10 to $12. It is a very poor sort of typewriter who, after six or eight months’ experience, can not make as much at this work as at school-teaching.

So tremendous are the advantages to modern business aflorded by the typewriter, that a maxim has come into use to the effect that there must be something wrong about the business office in which no typewriter is found.

As a matter of fact, the speed readily attained by operators is such that many business men prefer to dictate

at a time are made upon thin paper for newspaper work.

Its importance as a very valuable and constantly increasing means of making a livelihood and doing useful work at the same time is acquiring recognition. at many of our public institutions, such as the Cooper Institute and the YoungWomen’s Christian Association, there are free classes in typewriting. There are over 200 machines in use in the several business colleges and shorthand schools, for purposes of instruction, in new York City. Typewriting is now taught in some of the public schools, and it is only a question of time when it will be in all. It has been found that, with its aid, it is much easier to teach spelling, punctuation, and the proper use of capitals.

Deaf and dumb people take naturally to the typewriter. There is one boy, Thomas M. Caton, who uses the Remington with rapidity and accuracy, who is not only deaf and dumb, but also blind. It is his delight to write off for visitors: “This is a specimen of work done upon the typewriter by one who never saw a typewriter.” after a sentence has been spelled out to him by touch, he starts off at astonishing speed to write it out, and makes but very few errors.

So dependent have the merchants become upon the typewriter that in no less than ten of new York’s hotels typewriter operators find a profitable business in doing the correspondence of the guests. those who once adopt the typewriter never go back to the pen.

It might be expected that in conservative Europe the typewriter would not be accepted without a protest, and it is therefore somewhat surprising to find that, on the contrary, some of the very countries from which the least was hoped for have taken to the perfected writing machine with enthusiasm. for instance, the Frenchmen thank America for the sewing machine, the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter. In England, even Ruskin, the high priest of people who despise machinery of every kind and hate the very word “progress,” makes an exception in favor of the typewriter and condescends to like it. Charles Reade’s trenchant and characteristic praise of the typewriter has become almost famous. He says: “I advise parents to have their boys and girls taught shorthand writing and typewriting. the shorthand writer who can typewrite his notes will be safer from poverty than a Greek scholar.” the Bishop of York, Sir Andrew Clarke, physician to the Prince of Wales, and many other eminent Englishmen are earnest champions of the Remington typewriter.

To give some notion of the various countries in which the typewriter is used, here are some specimen lines written upon the Remington typewriters made for the regular trade abroad: ,

Xoth eme He Mhoto spe MeHM nponuio Ct> TixT>

, Ceci est un echantillon

Toto jest ukazka jak ma- de i>ecriture en Fransina pise cesky. eais.

Italian. German. Eato e8 una muestra del Questo e una mostra del Dieses ist ein muster trabajo en Espanol. lavoro in Italiano- von deutseher Sehrift.

their letters directly to the typewriter operator rather than to a stenographer. the Associated Press, which uses at least one hundred machines in its offices, employs operators who listen to the telegraphic message as it is clicked out by the sounder, and write it out upon the typewriter ; the receiver can write much faster than the man at the other end of the wire can send. from ten to thirty copies

The following are some of the languages to which the Remington typewriter has been adapted: English, French, German, Bohemian, Roumanian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Russian.

One language for which no typewriter has been as yet constructed is the Chinese, as its 30,000 characters would necessitate making an apparatus too large and complicated for use.

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