Tedd -- That's the kind of gizmo that really could have freed up some time for me...I remember going through reams of carbon paper and tubs of whiteout and making just a huge mess and having to retype things at 3 AM...things that were already written out in two drafts on legal pads...
Then again I guess the college kids today instead of going to $3 pitcher nights are all staying in posting profiles on MySpace...?? How computers have changed the world (and the course of our lives!). -- Kristina > At 9:40 AM -0700 4/16/08, Kristina Anderson wrote: > >Probably I would run into issues with licensing myself as my degree was > >in Literature & Linguistics (1985) ...and I used an old manual > >typewriter to do my research papers! LOL. > > > --Kristina: > > I received my last degree in 1984 from Michigan State University. > > I used an Apple ][ to type out my thesis. When I submitted it, it was > a big deal in the submission office because they had never seen an > original manuscript before. Everything up to that point had been > type-written pages with white-out mixed with photo copies and such. > Mine was a simple and clean original type-written manuscript. > > When I told them that I had used an Apple ][ word processor to print > my thesis, they had no clue of what word processing was and had ever > heard of such a thing. > > How things have changed in less than three decades. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
