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My very elderly mother is having problems writing on her computer - something to do with her hands trembling and not using the mouse accurately. Her once beautiful copperplate handwriting now resembles a drunken spiders' attempt at a Highland reel, so letter writing to friends back in the UK is becoming a problem. She was an office manager for many years and thinks she would be able to use either a manual or an electronic typewriter more effectively as she is more famiiar with these.

So..... has anyone seen one of these antiques anywhere in CR for sale? If you have, I would be indebted to you for the information and directions. Fingers crossed.

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Would a tablet (touch screen) be easier for her?

No - she tried out my brother's I pad thingy a couple of months ago - her tremor was too severe for good control. I think it's the difference between carrying out a definite manual act - pressing a key in a decisive manner on a familiar bit of equipment ie. typewriter keyboard, which seems to reduce the tremor, - and holding her hand over something which she is not au fait with, in which case it gets worse. But thanks for the suggestion, any way :) ...... and I did volunteer to act as scribe for her too.:unsure:

I will follow up the ebay suggestion ... unless someone knows anywhere locally?

Thanks to you both.

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the Land Office by the chiang rai condotel still uses them (likely)--maybe ask them.

My goodness - but if that's all the technology they need, then why not. Will venture in and see. Thanks.

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Would a tablet (touch screen) be easier for her?

No - she tried out my brother's I pad thingy a couple of months ago - her tremor was too severe for good control. I think it's the difference between carrying out a definite manual act - pressing a key in a decisive manner on a familiar bit of equipment ie. typewriter keyboard, which seems to reduce the tremor, - and holding her hand over something which she is not au fait with, in which case it gets worse. But thanks for the suggestion, any way :) ...... and I did volunteer to act as scribe for her too.:unsure:

I will follow up the ebay suggestion ... unless someone knows anywhere locally?

Thanks to you both.

Another option, albeit pretty complex, would be to install a speech recognition system on your computer. Dragon Dictate is supposed to be very good. However, you would probably need to do the speech recognition error corrections for her.

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