You know I'm kidding, right? I'm over 80, and I learned to type on a mechanical Smith-Corona. I spent a lot of time hitting that lever on the left that advanced the rubber ROLLER a linespace and took the CARRIAGE back to character-position 1.
When I was older, my brothers and I bought my father his first electric. No lever, but a rubber roller still, and knobs at both ends so that you could manually adjust the line if you wished. Took my father a long time to break the habit of hitting the left knob, accomplishing nothing. He had typed on a mechanical for well over 50 years by then, and old habits die hard, especially in old people.
Yes, Carriage. That was the moving part in (almost) every mechanical typewriter. It had a handle on the right left, with which you could send the carriage to its null position. Carriage Return.
Later on, when coding was developed for telexes, one of the coding standards was ASCII. In that Carriage Return was hex 0D, but you had to transport the paper as well: Line Feed (hex 0A). The combination used then always used (but still used in plain text files) was 0D0A: CRLF. Carriage Return Line Feed.
7 bit ASCII was used too on the electric teletypes (for commanding early computer systems), partly functioning with 8-hole paper tape (the last hole had hardly any function). One I had to do with was the 33 ASR, that can be seen here (Wikipedia). I was supposed to maintain it mechanically as well. That was about from 1976 until 1983! It was used to operate the main computer (Prime 100) of the typesetting system.
My main job in that time was to (electronically) maintain the typesetting machine, controlled by one more Prime 100 minicomputer.
That typesetter had about the size of a small room: Linotron 303. You find it here: The Typesetter that's part TV set: the Linotron 303.
WIN 11, WIN 10, WIN 8.1, WIN 7 U, WIN 7 PRO, WIN 7 HOME (32 Bit), LINUX MINT
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model
DIY, ASUS, and DELL
CPU
Intel i7 6900K and i9-7960X / AMD 3800X (8 core)
Motherboard
ASUS X99E-WS USB 3.1 and ASUS X299 SAGE
Memory
128 GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM (B DIE)
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA 1070 and RTX 3070
Sound Card
Crystal Sound (onboard)
Monitor(s) Displays
single Samsung 30" 4K and 8" aux monitor
Screen Resolution
4K and something equally attrocious. I'll be working on this.
Hard Drives
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W
Ports X, Y, and Z are reserved for USB access and removable drives.
Drive types consist of the following: Various mechanical hard drives bearing the brand names, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Various NVMe drives bearing the brand names Kingston, Intel, Silicon Power, Crucial, Western Digital, and Team Group. Various SATA SSDs bearing various different brand names.
INTEL RAID 0 (KINGSTON HYPER X) System 447.14 GB
INTEL RAID 1 TOSHIBA ENTERPRIZE class Data 2794.52 GB
INTEL RAID 1 SEAGATE HYBRID 931.51 GB
PSU
SEVERAL. I prefer my Corsair Platinum HX1000i but I also like EVGA power supplies
Case
ThermalTake Level 10 GT (among others)
Cooling
Noctua is my favorite and I use it in my main. I also own various other coolers.
Keyboard
all kinds.
Mouse
all kinds
Internet Speed
360 mbps - 1 gbps (depending)
Browser
FIREFOX
Antivirus
KASPERSKY (no apologies)
Other Info
Gave Dell touch screen with Windows 11 to daughter and got me an OTVOC. Being a PC builder I own many desktop PCs as well. I am a father of five providing PCs, laptops, and tablets for all my family, most of which I have modified, rebuilt, or simply built from scratch. I do not own a cell phone, never have, never will.
