Re: DOS only machine?

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

> Their real stroke of genius was the add-on, so to speak: a book
> called Teach Yourself Touch Typing. Little did they know how
> essential that skill would become.

My typewriter came with a set of LP's to teach touch typing. I learned to type that way, although
eventually the top (numeric) row fell away from my kinaesthetic map.

> Honestly, though, I miss the look of typewritten text more than
> the experience of producing it on a typewriter. (Struggling with
> Wite-Out the night before a paper was due is not among my
> fondest memories.) Happily, free TTF typewriter fonts are
> plentiful on the Web. The output of my Olympia looked something
> like this:
> https://i.imgur.com/b5bgXiI.png
> The font is Olympia Congress.

Hmmm. That *is* a rather comforting font.
Do you have something to simulate the sound, too?
The klackety sound when you're on a roll with a typewriter is much more rewarding, stimulating or
encouraging than the dull thuddy sound of Mac keyboards.

Myron