29 Dec
2005
29 Dec
'05
9:49 p.m.
Rumor has it that Richard may have mentioned these words:
In article <20051229233410.52d5dfd3.chenmel at
earthlink.net>,
Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> writes:
> There's really nothing else to compare to the immediacy of using
> a typewriter. These days everything written is transferred into
> an electronic ether, to possibly be printed someday, more likely
> to just disappear. It's a very 'real' experience to type a page
> of thoughts direct to a piece of paper. And it is something that
> many people no longer experience.
Thank goodness!
Also, there are times when I have to fill out a form or
something else
and its really just *much* more efficient to power on a typewriter and
bang it out in a few seconds...
And then try to find an eraser to rub-out what you fscked up, grumble,
never find the eraser, reload new paper, keep banging, realize you made
another mistake... Ungh. Not to mention when you need to edit said document
2 years later, instead of retyping the whole thing in again.
Typewriters are like cats - I have nothing against them as long as I don't
have to have one. ;-)
than it is to turn on the computer,
launch the editor, type in the text, turn on the printer, print it
out, and then power everything off again.
I turn on my trusty 20-year-old Tandy 200 (immediate), the printer's
*always on* and does text, Postscript, PCL6, Diablo, and lord knows what
else, bang on a keyboard *nearly* as good as a Selectric (I will admit they
had a nice feel to 'em, prolly still why I like IBM Model 'M's ;-)
including repairing mistakes, print the sucker out, and hand the copy to
whomever needs it. Much faster than a typewriter *for me*.
Typewriters are the reason I graduated high school typing "36 wpm" instead
of the 110+ I could achieve on a computer - forgetting to set the
double-space was my first mistake in the test, and the secretarial teacher
dogged me on it. If she'd have overlooked that and took the next 6 _actual_
errors (most of which were due to differences in the keyboards between the
Selectrics & a Tandy Model 4, which I used 90% of the time), at least the
damn thing would've said 69wpm. Still not an actual meter of what I could
do, but one helluva lot closer!
Not counting stupid typoes, that number would've been 114.
Obviously, that was back when they still called it "typing" instead of
"keyboarding" which they call it now. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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