Tuesday, October 8, 2013

KMC in action

I'm really been enjoying using my Remington Rand KMC to type comments on students' papers. This machine is smooth, fast, and a pleasure to type on. (See my review and comparison to the Royal KMM here.)

I thought people might enjoy seeing and hearing it in action.

17 comments:

  1. Great video, thanks. Don't know about the typewriter, but that's a deft typing action, sir!

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  2. Nice. That machine means business.

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  3. You hit that return lever with attitude and that tank of a typewriter can take it.

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  4. Great! A heck of a typewriter, isn't it? Thanks for posting this! -Will Davis

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  5. It's amazing how much the KMC sounds like my Remington Model Seventeen. I imagine that the action is similiar, too.

    You really fling the return lever with "alacrity"! It's very interesting to see people's different typing styles.

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  6. Very nice machine to work with, isn't it? Mine ranks very, very high in my favorites list! Built like a tank, smooth, a very nicely spaced keyboard... my only gripe with it is that I sometimes hit accidentally the KMC keys while trying to type numbers, thus changing the margins and having to stop to reset them again to their original positions. Guess I should practice some more.

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  7. I bet your students love your typewritten notes (:

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    1. "Did you REALLY write this on a TYPEWRITER? That is SO COOL!"

      This from a girl who had been to my office. I guess she didn't realize I actually used the things.

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  8. What a fine sound that thing makes. Watching that is inspiration to get my speed up. That speed would land you a typing pool job in the 50's

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    1. And then I'd get fired for inaccuracy. You should see how often I X things out.

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  9. Lovely beast. The machine, I mean.

    By the way, welcome back to Google+. Yes, the G+ matrix let me know you had returned. There is no escaping the cloud ;-)

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    1. They kept nagging me to use the same nickname on YouTube and Blogger, so finally I said yes. Then that action, for some reason, re-created a Google+ account for me. I don't want it and (after extensive struggle) have managed to extricate myself again.

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  10. Wow, love the sound of it! It seems fairly quiet too? I'll have to keep my eyes out for one of those!

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    1. I would not call it quiet, but I like the sound too. Classic typewriter sound, and everything is very well put together.

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    2. Yeah, the sound is very nice. It looks quite sturdy! I noticed the red typewriter on the shelf - what kind is it?

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    3. That's a Voss with red or maroon body and ivory ribbon cover.

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