Hello Mari - and a belated welcome.
Of all the complicated reasons why, the one that lasts, and is always uppermost, is the atmosphere of quiet and concentration that the TW gives me.  My computer always seems to be urging me to; "Get on with it! - you're wasting power!  My battery's running down!"  and to distract me; "Perhaps you should check your e-mails? - it has been ten minutes, and something important may have cone in.  AND what about those photos you took this morning - you need to edit those - they're only a click away..."

But the TW asks nothing and says nothing, it just waits, silently.

Writing on the computer can turn into a massive editing session, but with the TW, if it's wrong, you rewrite rather than edit, and so I find the rewriting often fresher and better than the piece which is just a mass of patching up.

I still have a score of very nice machines here, but I'm not really a collector - just a user who's been trying to find the best machine for me.  And I think I have!
 

Boy!!  I'm going to have to go a little bit farther back to just before water got invented.  I'll try.  I know this is an older post, but I do have a story:  It happened when I was eleven years old, and it was my sister's tenth birthday.  I don't know who gave it to her, or if she wanted it for her birthday, but she got a toy typewriter, a Buddy L, I think.  I was jealous.  I wanted one of my own.  So Maw said I could type on hers.  I did for a time, and pretty soon, I got to tinkering with it, and had it apart on her desk.  She didn't like that typewriter much, it was one of those Royal Princess MC models (the only one with the plastic carriage lever, I broke that off by accident one time).  She intensely disliked that typewriter, but it was all she had.  Needless to say, she was more than a little sore about it.  A year later, she got an older Royal--a KMM 1948 model (I still have it).  I used that one pretty good, but kept it together.  I then got a Royal Quiet DeLuxe 1958 model, then a 1946 or 1947 Remington, then a 1940 Underwood Master, and pretty soon, I was amassing an armada of typewriters.  To say that I had gotten bitten by the typewriter bug is like saying a blind man can't see very well.  Those little suckers were munchin' on me HAARD!  I still got teethmarks in my nostrils.   It wasn't too long before I was even trying out different typewriters on Maw, trying to find one she would like the best.  She like a 1959 Underwood Touch-Master II someone gave me.  It was her very last typewriter, rest her soul (I still have that one too).  I don't find typewriters as often as I used to, but I sure got alot of stories to tell.

She should try using them, and see what happens!

Javi wrote:

Here´s my story:
The first typewriter I saw as at my grandfather´s office, an Olivetti Linea 98. For me it was a weird toy, I found it fun to type some silly stories on it. Then when I was 11 a good friend gave me a Nakajima ALL 8000 as a gift. In theory it should be useful at school, but in the end I used it very little and my grandfather after retiring decided he preferred the Nakajima instead of the bulky Linea 98.

So far, no interest at all in typewriters.

But then, like 15 years after my girlfriend´s grandfather passed away, and no one knew what to do with a Lettera 32 he had used for a lot of years. It was "useless", but I felt it was wrong to send it to the junkyard. I decided to keep it and maybe I´d give it some use. And that´s when I was bitten. During those 15 years I started to write, and I tried it on that little machine. What a huuuuuuge difference. Somehow the typewriter makes me feel way better, more comfortable. In addition to the pleasure of the action, I started learning more abot mechanics, and then about typewriter history. And that was it. First I rescued my grandfather´s Linea 98 from oblivion, and then I started hunting everywhere I could.

As for now, my girlfriend complains about the little army of typewriters at home and how they keep piling up.

Careful, it's from those little small armies that larger armies grow.  I think I have a little over an entire company's worth, or a platoon.  Maybe a squadron.  What does 75 to 100 constitute?
 

TypewriterKing wrote:

Careful, it's from those little small armies that larger armies grow. I think I have a little over an entire company's worth, or a platoon. Maybe a squadron. What does 75 to 100 constitute?
 

Indeed it´s grown larger. So large that today it´s hit the 140 mark. More than enough to invade my house