Want to try out a vintage typewriter and get a sense of what keyboards were like before computer keyboards? Can you type on a manual typewriter faster than you can tap out a message on your device? Experience how the keyboards felt and sounded before the machine was ever connected to electricity. See if you can identify some common keys on keyboards of today that were not on earlier models. Visit Computer Museum of America on Wednesday, November 23rd and Friday, November 25th from 1 – 3 PM and try out a few units and meet typewriter subject matter expert Tom Rehkopf.
Free with museum admission.
Want to try out a vintage typewriter and get a sense of what keyboards were like before computer keyboards? Can you type on a manual typewriter faster than you can tap out a message on your device? Experience how the keyboards felt and sounded before the machine was ever connected to electricity. See if you can identify some common keys on keyboards of today that were not on earlier models. Visit Computer Museum of America on Wednesday, November 23rd and Friday, November 25th from 1 – 3 PM and try out a few units and meet typewriter subject matter expert Tom Rehkopf.
Free with museum admission.
Writers and Their Typewriters
Ever wonder what it would be like to write on the same model typewriter Hemingway used? Long before Microsoft Word became the tool of choice for writers, the typewriter was a unique middle ground between the intimacy of handwriting and the speed and efficiency of the computer. Novelist Will Self said, “I think the computer user does their thinking on the screen, but the typewriter user is compelled to do much more thinking in the head.”
Typewriter Tom returns to CMOA on January 28 with a unique collection of the exact typewriter models used by many famous authors. From Mark Twain’s Remington #6 to Cormac McCarthy’s $254,000 Olivetti Lettera 32, this is your chance to try them out. Start your next 300-page novel! Channel your inner Hemingway! Use two spaces!
Free with museum admission.
Writers and Their Typewriters
Ever wonder what it would be like to write on the same model typewriter Hemingway used? Long before Microsoft Word became the tool of choice for writers, the typewriter was a unique middle ground between the intimacy of handwriting and the speed and efficiency of the computer. Novelist Will Self said, “I think the computer user does their thinking on the screen, but the typewriter user is compelled to do much more thinking in the head.”
Typewriter Tom returns to CMOA on January 28 with a unique collection of the exact typewriter models used by many famous authors. From Mark Twain’s Remington #6 to Cormac McCarthy’s $254,000 Olivetti Lettera 32, this is your chance to try them out. Start your next 300-page novel! Channel your inner Hemingway! Use two spaces!
Free with museum admission.
Hollywood Type: Typewriters in the MoviesComputers may have taken over the movie production chores, but there are still plenty of starring roles for the iconic typewriter. Whether co-starring with Tom Hanks or solving mysteries with Jessica Fletcher, the typewriter has played a key role in the Hollywood scene, and movie-making is on the rise in Georgia.Typewriter Tom returns to CMoA on March 4-5 from 12 – 4 PM with a unique collection of typewriters used in the movies, including some just back from recent production shoots in Georgia. This is your chance to experience the movie scene and practice your best actor impersonations, whether sitting at an Adler (Jack Nicholson in “The Shining”) or Underwood #5 (Morgan Freeman in “The Magic of Belle Isle”), as well as many others. Who knows, this could be the big break you have been waiting for…Free with museum membership or admission.
Hollywood Type: Typewriters in the MoviesComputers may have taken over the movie production chores, but there are still plenty of starring roles for the iconic typewriter. Whether co-starring with Tom Hanks or solving mysteries with Jessica Fletcher, the typewriter has played a key role in the Hollywood scene, and movie-making is on the rise in Georgia.Typewriter Tom returns to CMoA on March 4-5 from 12 – 4 PM with a unique collection of typewriters used in the movies, including some just back from recent production shoots in Georgia. This is your chance to experience the movie scene and practice your best actor impersonations, whether sitting at an Adler (Jack Nicholson in “The Shining”) or Underwood #5 (Morgan Freeman in “The Magic of Belle Isle”), as well as many others. Who knows, this could be the big break you have been waiting for…Free with museum membership or admission.