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 03:19:41 +0200 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <10pv2af$1eb4h$2@dont-email.me> <87zf3wx1jt.fsf@parhasard.net> <10pvhqb$1j2vg$1@dont-email.me> <1rsjtwr.9h8wo7a6jjujN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10q2o7j$nr7l$1@news1.tnib.de> <1rsostx.1fumdje1pdrftiN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <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> <1rsta5r.iodu9pkllu2gN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eC0MQiBMRn/Z65gagkRISgkWQoDZDiwRyXKAYrhcRo9SNvO5iK X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:/qW4ZipyZpgIwpQ6iWrBJzv0ztI= sha256:Jlqkhc68F6Zv+BNaGv1CNIxcjTNyF4bk9UIR5QwtqMU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <1rsta5r.iodu9pkllu2gN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84767 alt.usage.english:1141734 On 2026-03-31 02:24, Sn!pe wrote: > 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. >> No electronic computers or calculators but I had a mechanical >> device which was a printed celluloid sleeve wrapped around the shaft >> of printed pencil and you moved it to check on your multiplicatons. >> >> The banks definitely and post offices I believe had such facilities >> as steel nib pens designed to scratch out requiste numbers on >> deposis slips. >> Oh I am so, so, old. >> > > I too grew up with dip-pens and inkwells. There was an accursed pest > sitting at the desk in front of mine who would put a stub of blackboard > chalk in my inkwell, thus making it useless for its intended purpose. I > got my revenge though, I would twang an "inky blot" at the back of his > neck with my ruler. > > In the infants' class we still used a slate and chalk. > > I can not imagine what a group of restless kids would do with bottles of ink at their disposal. I had such desks in first grades (old school) and I guessed what they were for, but in 67 they were already phased out. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;