Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:12:16 +0200 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <09js9mxqv7.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <1rsoqz0.19zzbh71ebfb7bN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <18a11176d0ed8bfb$1717$2710841$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1rsp93i.i0zwza16xvqdfN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18a11b491becb6ce$558$2491104$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1rsq78a.9hgxro1eczx2yN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qb9df$1inu5$14@dont-email.me> <1rsr591.1ssq8oh1dihjwuN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qc4dc$1silm$10@dont-email.me> <0cqjskp5oprp9v1utu6t3q8u0urkpnjbvs@4ax.com> <951q9mxo8p.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qf25l$2tg1l$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2lt+K9GGxlPPkw73VrOQxgbAO/SW1V7uocV8HzCDPsLPbhLtco X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:F8EVr8guo9M818Xtnd6nShgIByA= sha256:zksZwpMkUJ3+omjT7H/cz0l1ra9rwtm2SPdbJuiDsaE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84834 alt.usage.english:1141789 On 2026-03-31 06:40, rbowman wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:49:06 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> Can but agree. I grew up with the older style desk in all my > schools >> and am grateful because I took lots of notes. But curiously in the >> 1940s there were no ballpoint pens or other modern writing tools so the >> groove held a terrible old pen and the round hole, an inkwell. Pencils >> were used to practice writing on lined paper that was rather fllimsy and >> we practiced with pens and used fountain pens at home to write our final >> drafts. > > I can't remember what we used but it wasn't the inkwells. At some point I > had an inexpensive cartridge fountain pen. I cut costs further by using a > syringe to refill the cartridges from my mother's bottle of ink. I vaguely > recall the ones with an internal bladder and a lever on the side. > > My father brought home a BIC that he had found in a shipment from France > where someone had mislaid it. I thought that was pretty neat. It wasn't > too much later they hit the US market. > I remember someone whose ballpen had dried out, and wanted someone with a fountain pen to squish a drop of ink on the tube. That would not have worked, but they discussed yes or no for a long time. The chap with the fountain pen became my best friend, but he died in some scuba diving accident much later. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;