I think a bit of age bias is needed there. If you where born after say 1975 it might need explaining
hehe
Vic41 said
12:57 PM Jun 23, 2014
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...
Peterpan said
01:49 PM Jun 23, 2014
Just a note,the traveller is usually pushed by the right hand not the left.
My apologies Vic. I think Doug's Uncle Al has taken up residence.
Do you think he will take him back
Kevin
Mike C said
06:04 PM Jun 23, 2014
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 said
06:22 PM Jun 23, 2014
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 !
-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 23rd of June 2014 06:27:07 PM
Mike C said
07:07 PM Jun 23, 2014
Well there you go then..
it was the one amongst many he was thinking about then :)
cheers
Mike
Bryan said
09:29 PM Jun 23, 2014
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 said
10:36 PM Jun 23, 2014
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 said
11:53 AM Jun 24, 2014
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 AHH things sure have changed. In fact, faxes generally are pretty much extinct these days
Only a short video (5 seconds).....
http://www.youtube.com/embed/qteu4ld_SCE?rel=0
I think a bit of age bias is needed there. If you where born after say 1975 it might need explaining
hehe
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...
Just a note,the traveller is usually pushed by the right hand not the left.
Don't think so, none that I've seen.....
My apologies Vic. I think Doug's Uncle Al has taken up residence.
Do you think he will take him back
Kevin
so Kevin was not necessarily wrong.
cheers
Mike
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
it was the one amongst many he was thinking about then :)
cheers
Mike
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.
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
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
AHH things sure have changed. In fact, faxes generally are pretty much extinct these days 
Cheers - John