My nieces thought it was a printer.

Good grief! I think we actually had one of these while I was growing up! I typed more than one school report on it! =^^=

Kids don't know how good they got it

Heh, the greatest thing from my first actual word processor was the ability to use the backspace key to actually erase the typo! =^^=

See i used a word program that came with Personal Deskmate 5.1 on the Tandy 1000 PC.....i had no such key I had to go back and press the delete button

Wow, that is convoluted!

My first electric typewriter was a Brother Type-a-Graph. It actually had teeny little pens to letter, as opposed to type. Of course, as the name implied, it also made bar graphs, line charts, and pie charts in four colors!

However, one had eight characters in a tiny window. If you caught your typo while it was there, you were ok. Once it got to paper, though....

This is a standard 1954 typewriter so nothing extra :p It was one that acepted the 3 ribbon spoils that can do Black, white, and red lettering