Returning to work after 30 years raising a family....

Vic41 · Guru

Returning to work after 30 years raising a family....

Bryan · Guru

biggrin biggrin biggrin

Kendo · Senior Member

I think a bit of age bias is needed there. If you where born after say 1975 it might need explaining

hehe wink

Vic41 · Guru

Good point Kendo......for those fems who did not grow up in that generation, she is doing a paper carriage return which became a reflex action by experienced typists in those days... hmm

Peterpan · Guru

Just a note,the traveller is usually pushed by the right hand not the left.

Vic41 · Guru

Don't think so, none that I've seen.....

Peterpan · Guru

My apologies Vic. I think Doug's Uncle Al has taken up residence.

Do you think he will take him back

Kevin

Mike C · Senior Member

There are a lot or written languages that read right to left (Hebrew) that would have for sure have needed a right hand drive typewriter (if that the correct technical description)
so Kevin was not necessarily wrong.

cheers

Mike

Vic41 · Guru

Peterpan wrote:
My apologies Vic. I think Doug's Uncle Al has taken up residence.
Do you think he will take him back

Kevin

No worries Kevin, a google of Typewriter Carriage Returns will bring up heaps of pic's of others with the left hand carriage lever.

We are of course talking about old typewriters in the Western World...

Uncle Al is a relative of mine also, also have fat finger disease where keyboards are concerned, LOL !

Mike, most of the old style Hebrew typewriters had the carriage return on the left also, except for one amongst many, see the images on this link; https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Hebrew+typewriter

-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 23rd of June 2014 06:27:07 PM

Mike C · Senior Member

Well there you go then..
it was the one amongst many he was thinking about then :)

cheers

Mike

Bryan · Guru

I remember how excited Kathy was when she got one of those golf ball typewriters. I never heard the end of it. It was technology at it's peak. I think it was an IBM.

I also remember a phone call I had saying to stop the idiot at the fax machine from sending the same fax over and over. Apparently he was doing it because the paper didn't go through. He thought that meant the line was engaged so he kept trying. I don't want to laugh too much because today's technology has me equally mystified.

Vic41 · Guru

Ummmm......I can remember at work sending fax's and was told I was putting the documents in upside down and all they were getting at the other end was a blank bit of paper

-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 23rd of June 2014 10:36:55 PM

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Back in the early 1960s I was a Telegraphist in the PMG - AH them woz da daze

I used to operate a fax machine like this at the Melbourne Chief Telegraph Office (CTO). The major users were the newspapers who used to bring their photos to us to send to other newspapers around the country. The only other fax machines within Australia were in the CTOs at Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide and Perth. We sent and received photos via these machines. When we received the faxed photos we had to develop them just like a photograph in the dark room then forward them by Junior Postal Officer (Telegram Boy) to the various newspaper offices.

We also sent photos to London, New York, and a handful of European countries.

This fax machine took up an entire room hmm AHH things sure have changed. In fact, faxes generally are pretty much extinct these days cry

Cheers - John