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As an old fart who actually used a typewriter, I must point out that the bell does not ring when you press the carriage return. The bell rings when you are near
by joblessjunkie 3y ago
As an old fart who actually used a typewriter, I must point out that the bell does not ring when you press the carriage return. The bell rings when you are nearing the end of the line to warn you that you are bout to run out of paper.
On carriage return, the sound should be a slow swing of the heavy carriage physically returning.
- stavros 3y agoThis is odd, I could have sworn mine rang the bell when the carriage return returned to the start of the line, so it was more of a "swoooosh ding!", but I watched a video and you're right. Very odd.
- cbm-vic-20 3y agoThe bell was rang (rung?) when you were around ten columns away from the right side of the paper, as a notification to the user to manually use the carriage return bar, or use the return key on the fancy electric typewriters.
- Someone 3y ago> as a notification to the user to manually use the carriage return bar It also, probably more so, was a signal to the user to start thinking about how to break the current line. You couldn’t type and, upon realizing the word you were typing didn’t fit the line, backspace and type a hyphen. ‘About ten columns’ then is a reasonable number. Of course, longer words exist and aren’t extremely rare, but those would have a reasonable hyphenation point that you could and would want to use.
- queuebert 3y agoThe ding is your cue to return the carriage. You were well conditioned. :-P
- plexxer 3y agoOn mine, the force of the carriage returning was enough that it jostled the bell and it rang softly. Perhaps that is what you were remembering?
- joemi 3y agoMaybe this is your Mandela Effect moment?
- nerdbert 3y agoAlso, shift should make a sound, and both space and backspace obviously have their own sounds, which are different from typing a character.
- Jolter 3y agoI thought I heard shift sounds in the demo video?
- orhunp 3y agoThanks for your comment! I created an issue about this: https://github.com/orhun/daktilo/issues/22 https://github.com/orhun/daktilo/issues/22
- otteromkram 3y agoChiming in to complement your amazing username.
- sound1 3y agothat is the 2nd immediate thing i noticed about that post and 100% agree with you! :-)
- LanceH 3y agoMaybe a thunk, advancing to the next line if it's a powered typewriter. Those IBM selectrics were overbuilt. They vibrated and hummed when turned on.
- imchillyb 3y agoOur office still has a manual typewriter, and an IBM Selectric. The bell rings when the Page Stops are reached. These can be manually set on the page. The bell rings, the typist plans for end of line, then they whack the bar and zzzzz-thunk the carriage returns.