I'm Scott and I'm new here. And new to typewriters as a hobby in itself. I was tossed out of typing class in 1953. In 1964, while stationed in the West Indies, I got my hands on a Sears Portable. I was better at spinning yarns than typing them and in about 1982 I jumped ship for a word processor with a delete key.

In about 2002 I bought a broken Olympia SM9 for $6 and packed it around until 2020 when I fixed it. I do most of my brainstorming on this Olympia. Unfortunately, publishers don't like hard copy.

In short, I'm an old man and this the world of typewriters is a delightful sit-down hobby.

Thanks for being here.

I'm a published author (short stories), beginning in 1964 using a Sears Portable. In those days there were backroom publishers. As time went on the internet arrived and I jumped ship for 40 years. During that period I owned at least a dozen machines.

Today I own only two - an Olympia SM9 and an Olympia electric. The SM9 is my favorite. I only got the electric because I'm an old man and I feared my fingers would fail me.

In this age publishers will not accept hardcopy. I do all my first drafts on the SM9 and somewhere down the line 3rd or 4th draft I move to an ONN tablet and Google DOCS.

And there is my daily journal that's type written. The typewriter puts me in an alternate world. It's awesome.

A couple of decades ago the professor of journalism at the University of Oregon passed and he willed his daily journal the the school of journalism. The grad students who fetched his journal returned with more than 75,000 typed pages. It was a Mother Lode.