Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 31 Mar 2026 04:40:30 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yaoi69MwzwI13xbMFQwLMAy4uTQ88sB1d9n/KDRKk9VhG+C4z9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oP9vk4+DKBacCYTxCDbpqNH0Z54= sha256:+1Ywa/VHwW9vd5y31AnpIU2n9bC1mYoEL5tfkSyPkdI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84801 alt.usage.english:1141758 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.