Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
by cladari on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:03PM
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If he said that in 1970 he only had 3 years wait for item 2. The IBM Selectric II Correcting was introduced in '73.
Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
by WalterBright on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:24PM
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Correcting by stamping white ink over a letter was indeed a marvelous improvement, but nothing like what came later with a word processor. Later word processors, like the Wang in the late 70's, destroyed Selectrics, and obsoleted the job of "secretary".
I remember my Mom typing his thesis over and over on the Royal typewriter. What a boring, dehumanizing task that was.
My dad abandoned his typewriter when he bought a Trash-80. I abandoned my typewriter when I discovered the printer in the computer center at Caltech around 1975. I'd use runoff, a marvelous program that is a precursor to HTML.
I'm really glad to be done with those. Ugh. Back around 1970 my dad said the world was waiting for two great inventions:
1. A TV you could hang on the wall like a picture
2. A typewriter that you could back up and correct mistakes on. (Few people likely remember Whiteout. Glad to be done with that, too!)
And great inventions they turned out to be :-)