1 - skywatcher
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Amusing Poster
Greetings All
Not really sure where this should be posted, so I'm posting it in here for now. Took my 87 year old mother to an ear specialist in the city last week and chanced to see this poster in one of the waiting rooms.
Take a closer look at the keyboard, does anyone recognize the key map? All the best,
Sky
We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
Frederic S. Durbin. (Typewriter mania and the modern writer)
- Laurenz van Gaalen
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Hi Sky,
The keyboard on the poster looks like the Turkish keyboard I found on Wikipedia. Note the poster version omits the the Q, W and X characters.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Turkish_%28F-keyboard%29
- Uwe
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Re: Amusing Poster
Spotted a similar poster in my optometrist's office...
- fountainpensplus
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Hmmm, i=14pxf this is some kind of optometrist joke the meaning is too far away to grasp. In the first poster I thought the underlying story was ones eyes are so bad that a machine was chosen with a typeface that wasn’t English. By the time I reached Ewe’s post I thought maybe the joke / story was if one thought this was a computer with keyboard the eyes are really bad. A search of ‘The National Campaign For Better Clip Art” gave no information. Any other suggestions what the underlying story might be?
- Amelia
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I take my mom to her Doctor's appointments too. Why is it that I don't get to see cool prints like that one? 
My blog: http://papelymaquina.blogspot.com/ Photo gallery: http://papelymaquina.imgur.com/
- M. Höhne
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The design of Uwe's find in the optometrist's office is puzzling and on the face of it insulting. The idea that using a typewriter in one's youth is an example of poor judgement?
The poster would make more sense in an Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist's office, except the image would still be puzzling. Try again, Designer. This is the poster poster for the Campaign for Better Clip Art.
- Laurenz van Gaalen
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I am pretty sure Uwe's optometrist poster is photoshopped. Either the optometrist fooled Uwe, or Uwe tries to fool us.
- Uwe
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Laurenz van Gaalen wrote:
I am pretty sure Uwe's optometrist poster is photoshopped. Either the optometrist fooled Uwe, or Uwe tries to fool us.
Yes, and yes... I was just making light of the fact that they couldn't have chosen a worse portable typewriter to use for the original poster Sky posted. However, I didn't think that I was being insulting; I challenge anyone to defend the performance or build quality of the Corsair (or its variants). I've had a few pass through my collection and only kept one as an example to demonstrate the effect '60s Japanese machines had on Smith-Corona.
- thetypewriterman
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Couldn't agree more about the Corsair, even though it was made in England in the old Empire factory. Once Empire were taken over by Smith-Corona in 1960, they went from making one of the best portable typewriters to one of the worst ! And yet - people just love the styling of these machines. All fur coat and no knickers 
- M. Höhne
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Yes, and yes... I was just making light of the fact that they couldn't have chosen a worse portable typewriter to use for the original poster Sky posted. However, I didn't think that I was being insulting; I challenge anyone to defend the performance or build quality of the Corsair (or its variants). I've had a few pass through my collection and only kept one as an example to demonstrate the effect '60s Japanese machines had on Smith-Corona.
Ha, ha. My comment about insulting was based on the pretense that this was really visible in a public waiting room, and a casual viewer, one not in the least aware of Corsairs, would infer that anyone who had a typewriter would be a tasteless dolt. I'm glad this has been sorted out. This poster's sponsor is particularly clever. Thanks, guys.
I too have had several Corsairs pass through my hands and I wish I had one now to take a part from (the CR lever and its mount assembly) to fix an otherwise good Super G in brilliant orange. The key phrase here is "pass through my hands", eh?
