Here's my last class card from this past month...ooh, guess I better get busy and stamp some more!
Ingredients: Stamps - Just My Type; Paper - Just Add Cake, Whisper White, Pool Party, Early Espresso, So Saffron; Ink - Early Espresso, Pool Party; Other - Fashionable Hearts Embosslits die, So Saffron Taffeta ribbon, Mini Silver brads, Early Espresso marker, dimensionals.
STINKIN' CUTE!!! (YILM!) This brings memories back to me of my dad typing. He was wicked fast on a manual typewriter! He was the secretary for his bowling league and all those league documents had to be hand typed back then. Of course, this is the kind of typerwriter I learned on myself. There were a few electric typewriters in my junior high typing class, but we were expected to learn on the manual ones too. In college, I had a tiny manual Brother portable that I typed all my papers on...at least until I begged to be able to stay late in the Interlibrary Loan office where I worked at Western Michigan University so that I could use the IBM Selectric, which was a large improvement over what I had been using. We had heard the library director talk about his word processor, but we never even got a look at it!
It wasn't until I lived in Illinois that I learned word processing and not until we moved back to Michigan that we had a computer of our own...ah, yes, our beloved Macintosh 512Ke. Can you imagine? 512K of disk space!!! It was AMAZING! We bought it used for the paltry sum of $1000!!! ROFL!
My typing class in junior high was great fun. And it led to my present career:
Who knew? Ta!
One of my first jobs out of college was selling IBM selectrics. They were so SMOOTH.... loved the feel of those keyboards. Of course the job was short lived - word processing was coming into vogue in 1985. I left the typewriter sales job for - you guessed it - a job at MicroAge computers selling those Macintosh 512Ke's. We sold a ton of them and at the time they were state of the art baby. Thanks for the walk down memory lane with this post.
Posted by: Linda Monroe | February 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM
I was such a 'dork'... when I got my first job after graduating, I went out and BOUGHT myself an IBM Selectric, in the green color so that it matched my room. Sheesh... I think I may even have the holder with various font balls!!!
Me too, Jan... thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Posted by: Kraftyaunt | February 10, 2012 at 03:29 PM
Hee hee this brought back some memories for me too. In typing class in High School, we only had manual typewriters. It wasn't until I'd been working for a couple of years that electric typewriters came in (yep, showing my age here!) I don't think my fingers would be strong enough now to touch-type on a manual - that's if I could even find one! Great card btw!
Posted by: KarrenJ | February 10, 2012 at 10:51 PM
Ah, the golden years, um, I mean the good old days of manual/electric typewritters! boy, kids nowadays just don't know what they missed out on, do they! :)
Posted by: Mary | February 11, 2012 at 09:54 AM
My darling dad bought me a Selectric typewriter when I went to college (yes, I'm really old, though I was only 16 as a freshman). I had totally forgotten those font balls! My dad got me one that had Spanish characters on it, and I got jobs typing Spanish majors and professors papers and letters. So cool! Wonder if anyone makes a Selectric typewriter stamp?! Wouldn't be as cute in your card though, Jan!
Posted by: Margaret | February 11, 2012 at 03:42 PM