The 1959 Smith-Corona Empire was, however, not the first typewriter that had ended up in the Buckhorn home. However, soon thereafter the company invested in what was known as word processors then the computers came. My first year there, I used an electric typewriter, an IBM, I believe. That was 11 years before I was appointed co-editor of the magazine.Īfter I had finished my university studies, I landed a job at a book publishing firm. I later reworked the piece and got it published in the Swedish rowing magazine the editor got it gratis. It was on this ‘knock-off’ I made my debut as a rowing writer when I in the spring of 1979 got an article about the Boat Race published in a local newspaper. I can’t remember the brand, but it was cheap, probably a Brother knock-off. I had a portable, mustard yellow typewriter. Even during my university years, my essays and papers were banged out on a typewriter. You wrote your essays by hand or on a typewriter (yes, I’m that old!). I had earlier told my son that during my years at secondary school – or high school, as it’s called here in the U.S. The lesson of the day had been that ‘writing’ didn’t start with computers! When my son came home, he told me that there had been many ‘ohhs’ and ‘ahhs’ among his friends when they saw the old machine.
#Facit typewriter history how to#
With some short instructions how to work the Empire, I drove my son to school in the morning. This 60-year-old vintage typewriter would be ancient to the young teenagers to look at and try out, I thought.
#Facit typewriter history portable#
The only thing that I could come up with that could be transported to school and back, was something I had won/bought on eBay a couple of months prior: a portable green 1959 British Smith-Corona Empire typewriter. Here he writes about it with a little sprinkle of rowing.Ī couple of years ago, when my son was in 8th grade, he came home one day from school saying that he was going to have a group project about the Industrial Revolution, and he wanted it to be some kind of show-and-tell. Göran R Buckhorn found himself buying a non-rowing related Christmas present – to himself. The 1957 Swedish Halda that found its way to Connecticut via Germany.Ģ020 was a strange year, indeed.
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