Faith recently helped a friend who's moving and brought back an old typewriter for me. I have an ancient Underwood picked up years ago for three bucks at a yard sale. This "new" typewriter is a Corona Standard and is in great shape.

It came with the original manual:

There's also a single page guide to Touch Typewriting. Once you have advanced sufficiently, lesson VI starts off with the following:

A big lazy quack, highly vexed, just came panting forward.
O'Donovan & Co. $1,000, 6 ½ note (due June 28).
Your wire read: "Shipped car #495,357; terms 2/10/30 net."
'Tis growth, not accumulation, that makes man great.
Is this the charge for 6 ¾ yards of voile @ 99 ¼¢ per yard?


I always hated typing that stuff in junior high typing class. Heck, even now, it was tough finding the HTML for some of those characters and would probably be just as tough to find the keyboard equivalents to type them for real. Besides having a throw that feels like your touching your toes with each key stroke, the quote key is a shifted 2, there's no 1 key...use small L, and this model does not have the tabulator option (tab key). The carrying case smells like really old luggage or furniture.

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