Nostalgia: Typewriter
When I was growing up, typewriters were almost obsolete. Almost. I had to write a few school papers on a typewriter. This was the mid 80’s, and home computers were crazy expensive back then. Nobody in my neighborhood had one. So, whenever I had an assignment that couldn’t be handwritten, I had to drag the old Remington typewriter out of the basement. The thing was built like a tank. The internal mechanisms were housed inside a heavy gauge, olive drab steel shell. You didn’t want to commit the cardinal sin of making a typo on a typewritten paper. Remember the rule: I before E except after C. Except there are a lot of exceptions. The word glacier is one of them. When I graduated to junior high school, I was happy to see there was a computer lab outfitted with a couple IBMs, a couple Apple II series, a bunch of Commodore 64s, and two dot matrix printers. At last, I had made the leap into the computer age. I h...
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