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In article <itq41h$nih$1@dont-email.me>,
Stephen Sprunk  <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
> On 20-Jun-11 14:14, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> > In article <isrgpj$4qq$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
> > Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org> wrote:
> >> [If you're not old enough to have ever seen a typewriter, google up
> >> an image of one now, or preferably a video of one in use.]
> > 
> > Good heavens -- are they really people who have never encountered a
> > typewriter at all?  cue chorus of "I feel old", maybe ....
> 
> I'm in my early 30s, and the only _mechanical_ typewriter I've seen was
> an antique originally owned by my grandfather, which my parents used in
> college (long before I was born) and kept in storage for sentimental
> reasons.  I saw a few electronic typewriters in school, but they had all
> disappeared by the time I graduated, and I can't recall having seen any
> since then; kids just a few years younger than I likely wouldn't
> remember them at all.

Probably typical ....  At my CPOE the support staff say they still
want one typewriter, since it's the best tool for one or a few
form-filling-out jobs.  I'd have thought maybe this would be true
at many offices, but maybe we're atypical!

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.

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  Re: variable-length strings ccc31807 <cartercc@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 07:13 -0700
    Re: variable-length strings Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-02 10:54 -0600
  Re: variable-length strings "George Mpouras" <nospam.gravitalsun@hotmail.com.nospam> - 2011-06-01 17:01 +0300
  Re: variable-length strings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-02 15:33 +0200
  Re: variable-length strings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2011-06-02 15:44 +0200
    Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-08 21:59 -0600
      Re: bdiff Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 16:08 +1200
        Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-08 22:20 -0600
          Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 02:57 -0600
            Re: bdiff Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 11:10 +0200
              Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 13:19 -0600
                Re: bdiff James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-09 19:32 +0000
                Re: bdiff Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-09 19:32 +0000
                Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 15:28 -0600
                Re: bdiff blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-06-09 12:33 -0700
                Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 15:15 -0600
                Re: bdiff pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-06-09 22:17 +0000
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 19:14 +0000
                Re: bdiff Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-20 18:43 -0500
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 20:39 +0000
                Re: bdiff Joe Wright <joewwright@comcast.net> - 2011-06-21 18:38 -0400
                Re: bdiff Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-21 18:11 -0500
                Re: bdiff Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-06-22 15:51 -0700
                Re: bdiff Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-06-21 07:49 -0500
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 20:40 +0000
                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-22 09:59 +0200
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 19:57 +0000
                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-23 21:16 +0200
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 19:36 +0000
                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-24 22:48 +0200
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 21:17 +0000
                Re: bdiff Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-24 17:20 -0500
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 19:55 +0000
                Re: bdiff Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-21 21:40 -0400
                Re: bdiff Azazel <azazel@remove.azazel.net> - 2011-06-22 09:06 -0500
                Re: bdiff Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-06-22 16:47 +0100
                Re: bdiff Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-06-22 11:23 -0500
                Re: bdiff Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2011-06-09 21:37 +0000
            Re: bdiff bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-06-19 06:10 -0500
      Re: bdiff Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-09 07:13 -0400
        Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 13:30 -0600
          Re: bdiff Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 13:29 -0700
            Re: bdiff Uno <merrilljensen@q.com> - 2011-06-09 21:11 -0700
              Re: bdiff "Morris Keesan" <mkeesan@post.harvard.edu> - 2011-06-09 23:58 -0400
                Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-12 00:47 -0600
                Re: bdiff Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-12 07:53 +0000
                Re: bdiff Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 12:02 -0500
                Re: bdiff Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-12 01:24 -0700
                Re: bdiff Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-12 12:18 -0500

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