Ahhh Carbon Paper, I remember it well. And typewriter erasers with little metal
templates that allowed you to erase just one letter (sometimes) not to mention
white out. Perhaps some of the "good-old-days" weren't so good!
Tom Lisa, Instructor, CCNA, CCAI
Community College of Southern Nevada
Cisco Regional Networking Academy
Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Thomas Lisa wrote:
>
> > The first place where I was hired as a Dir. of MIS, considered Computer Word
> > Processing to be IBM Selectrics with memory!
>
> Actually, the term "Word Processing" was coined by IBM. My father's
> office had a number of "Mag Card Selectric Typewriters" which were
> at the time very high-tech and expensive. A Selectric typewriter
> was connected via an umbilical to a deskside unit about the height and
> depth but half the width of a two-drawer file cabinet.
>
> This device had a slot which accepted a magnetic coated card the same
> size and shape as a Hollerith punch card. The typist would bang out a
> rough draft in "record" mode, backspacing and typing over errors, onto
> cheap paper. Then after proofreading and correction a piece of nice
> letterhead was inserted and the machine was set to "playback", typing
> a nice perfect copy. Each card held about a page of text. You could
> have cards of "canned" boilerplate and have the machine stop to have
> you switch cards.
>
> I even got to use it on weekends and evenings for high school term
> papers. At the time it was considered real space-age stuff. One of
> my teachers always wanted an original and a copy of papers. Anyone
> remember carbon paper? I just turned in two identical originals.
> The teacher knew something very strange was going on, especailly in
> cases where she would mark corrections and get back two fixed six-page
> originals the next day. Truly great fun.
>
> Probably used some of the same protocols at least as far as the Selectric
> interface.
>
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