A couple of years ago I literally pulled a muscle in my back picking up an IBM model B electric and carrying it into the other room. Took three weeks to get over that one.

TypewriterKing wrote:

I got a story about a hipster who carried one of these into a Starbucks and tried to use it. Took up the whole table, so he had to put his $10.00 cup of coffee on the floor. He probably paid more for the coffee than he did his typewriter.

Let me get this straight - the story is somebody carried an IBM model B into a coffee shop? Just popped around the corner, did he, casually wheeling his IBM B on a luggage cart? Had it collapsed the table and injured himself and other customers all would be suing Starbucks for not clearly marking the tables with load limits. And had staff asked him to take it off the table he would have been vocally defending his right to freedom of expression to an appreciative audience. 

Repartee wrote:

TypewriterKing wrote:

I got a story about a hipster who carried one of these into a Starbucks and tried to use it. Took up the whole table, so he had to put his $10.00 cup of coffee on the floor. He probably paid more for the coffee than he did his typewriter.

Let me get this straight - the story is somebody carried an IBM model B into a coffee shop? Just popped around the corner, did he, casually wheeling his IBM B on a luggage cart? Had it collapsed the table and injured himself and other customers all would be suing Starbucks for not clearly marking the tables with load limits. And had staff asked him to take it off the table he would have been vocally defending his right to freedom of expression to an appreciative audience. 

I only know I saw this all on YouTube.  This guy did not use a shopping cart--just manhandled a 45-pound monster through the door and plopped it on the only table in the place that was both unoccupied and had an outlet nearby.  I am not supposing anyone was thinking about all the legal rammifications such an action would precipitate.  Yes, the whole world is run by lawyers, which to me is about the saddest state humanity has ever been in.  We do need attorneys for various legal services and representation, but when they are the only ones calling the shots, that's bad.
 

TypewriterKing wrote:

Maybe he needs a softer spring in the space bar.
 

Now that's an interesting thought. I had assumed it was a cramped hand position. My, ah, friend reports that typing on an SG-1 seems positively therapeutic. It's a pretty little machine but it may have to go.
 

TypewriterKing wrote:

Maybe he needs a softer spring in the space bar.

Good Gawd, sir, you may be right! It does have an unsually strong spring force in the space bar! Interesting that such a thing would not have broken consciousness though it may have precipitated repetitive motion injury.