The Kremlin is switching to typewriters to avoid security leaks from computers.
I don’t know about that plan. Didn’t work out so well for Dan Rather.
The Kremlin is switching to typewriters to avoid security leaks from computers.
I don’t know about that plan. Didn’t work out so well for Dan Rather.
Only 2 fonts when I was in typing class. Pica or Elite. Pica was 10cpi and Elite was 12cpi. You could turn out a really nice letter using fancy paper and an IBM Selectric.
You kids had it easy!
When I was is in school, we had only manual typewriters.
And it was uphill both ways!
@1 & 2 – Slackers. Cream-puffs. Layabouts.
Back in my day – clay tablets.
Lacadaisicals. The bunch of you!
Had to write hieroglyphs with the sides of our fists, using mastodon blood for ink, on the sides of cave walls when I was growing up. Hierolyphs!
You don’t even know how lucky you were having an alphabet to use! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooo!!!! You worry about fonts and clay tablets! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
Hieroglyphs? You had it easy! We had to carry around the actual frickin’ items to form the durn words. You try haulin the stuff you need to spell out Spy Satellite my boy and then you can cry me a river.
you cream puffs. in my day, we had to dig the caves before we had a cave wall to paint on.
Remember this one, from the latter years of the Cold War?
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1987/Dimestore-Toy-a-Counterespionage-Tool-With-AM-Moscow-Embassy-Bjt/id-15b8d6b20861c8211d95e4b83964d412
…hah! Luxury! In my day, if we wanted to make a note of something I had to create a singularity, produce a universe, wait for galaxies and solar systems to form than can support life, then hope someone invents writing. Then we’d have to fight barbarian hoards while carving our notes into solid granite with with a mozzerella stick! …and if we made one mistake we’d have to destroy the whole universe and start over!
@8 You know, you tell kids that these days and they won’t believe you.
You guys make me smile 🙂
OK, blarg, you win.
But I wonder how many kids these days know what “BCC” means, let alone what carbon paper was. And how hard it was to make corrections.
Does anybody still use White Out? It might explain why, after years of saying “no”, that Mike Nesmith, whose mom invented the stuff, has finally agreed to go back out on tour with The Monkees.
The good white-out was taken off the market because of cancer worries and the new stuff is not nearly as good.
BTW, blarg, I hope you don’t have copywrite on that because I am absolutely going to steal it.
Correction (heh)…Mike Nesmith’s mom, Betty, actually invented Liquid Paper. Wite Out, made by the competition, came later.
You’ve never known the pain of “typewriters” unless you experienced the disasterous problems of the old IBM “Memory Selectric.” Piece.Of.Crap.
Oh, and you’re all slackers.
Is the CIA brushing up on the old “steal the used typewriter ribbon out of the trash bit?”