What is a typewriter?

Question

I learned on one too, 9th grade. I can't believe all those that said computer! christ, I'm not that old am I?

Answer 1

What's a dot-matrix printer, or a tape drive?
Or a rotary telephone? a record player?

Answer 2

I've seen some that said Underwood. No motor. If you weren't careful your fingers would go through the key sticks. I prefer a computer. If you do a lot of creative writing, moving text around is a snap. Also it helps to see what you're doing. I guess when they were first invented they were a tremendous thing back then. I guess it's what you're used to. The computer, to me, is the best invention possibly in the last five hundred years.

Answer 3

No. They were stumped. A typewriter is something used before computers to formally do papers on. Since the word processor and computer printer has been introduced, it's rarity now a days.

Answer 4

A typewriter is an old fashioned machine that people use(d) ta type reports and books and things like that.

Answer 5

When I went to high school we used one of those things to write articles for the newspaper. Computers were big things used in banks.

Answer 6

typewriter wuz fun in highschool, we passed notes around class and wrote letters in spare time,
who thought we would have a screen now instead of paper .

Answer 7

I thought to myself, "wowzo, all the people that said type writer, shows their age" but wowzo, to ask what one is is pretty funny/sad.

Answer 8

If you don't know the answer to that you don't belong on a computer, thanx for the points!

Answer 9

Type writers are still used today too just not as often.

Answer 10

Its a machine to type. Trust me you're not that old.