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Northwoods Voyager, I hear ya! I miss my IBM selectric typewriter too. It was a beautiful machine!
I lucked-into something similar at the last school where I taught -- the secretaries were all getting new computers, and I toted one down to my classroom! I still have the thing as nobody wanted it, or cared that I even brought it home.
I don't miss the first computer with a modem I had, it was a 286 with a 14/4 modem, we ran it with an AOL DOS disk, I could turn it on and eat dinner while it was booting up....clickity click click...lol
I bought a portable panasonic with a built in thermal printer back in 1986 or 1987. I upgraded the disk space to 20M! I thought is was a real screamer! Even had this "advanced" WP software called "MultiMate". It ran on DOS 3 or something. The thing weighed over 20 lbs.
The last time I saw a typewriter in an office was sometime in the early 1990's. Just about everybody now uses word processors like MS Word or Word Perfect.
While on the subject of typewriters, I don't miss White-Out. Remember that? I guess there are some people out there who still use it, because I still see it at Office Max!
While on the subject of typewriters, I don't miss White-Out. Remember that? I guess there are some people out there who still use it, because I still see it at Office Max!
Remember the white tape that came out after the liquid, oh it was like heaven.
I don't miss the first video game pong (yes, my dad paid $100.00 for it) and we had to either lay on the floor to turn the knob or put it on the table and boy I thought I was soo lucky to be a kid where technology was so evolved .
Remember the white tape that came out after the liquid, oh it was like heaven.
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I don't remember the tape, but I'll take your word for it. When I started working in the Information Technology in 1986, I could swear secretaries loved the liquid White-Out because I heard it gave them a "buzz" if they sniffed it..
I don't remember the tape, but I'll take your word for it. When I started working in the Information Technology in 1986, I could swear secretaries loved the liquid White-Out because I heard it gave them a "buzz" if they sniffed it..
Maybe the name "White Out" was appropriate!
Now that is something different.........I do miss that , loved it just like the big fat magic marker........mmmmmmm
I taught HS kids who thought White-Out was da bomb, which is what I threatened to drop on their sweet little heads if they didn't stop using it! Whole paragraphs whited-out, and I'm like WTH?
Until I started taking off points for its OVER use, I couldn't convince them a nice, neat line -- single, mind you, line! -- was perfectly acceptable MS style.
While we're on the topic, I don't miss reading b-a-a-a-a-a-d papers (but I think some kids out there *somewhere* have to still be writing them).
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, loved it just like the big fat magic marker........mmmmmmm
