> Now, I really am feeling old! I realise that whole generations are
> living now who do /not/ know what a typewriter looks like nor how it
> worked. Incredible and sad but that is progress ;-)
>
> My father was a journalist so the typewriter was the centrepiece of his
> work and I played/used it too from my most tender years. I knew all the
> bells and whistles, and all the smart tricks you could do with them.
> Later, at university, I typed my reports on my own typewriter. And then,
> during the early years at the Geological Survey, we wrote all the drafts
> of our reports and books in the same way. You know where the expression
> "cut-and-glue" comes from? Exactly! Writing books was writing (by hand)
> -> typing -> emending with pen and and ink -> cutting -> glueing ->
> typing again, and again, and again. We also had a nice lady who would
> help with the typing of course, whose typing errors we had then to
> correct again with pen and ink, and so on... ;-)
>
> The coming of text editors on a central main frame computer you could
> reach by /dialling/ a phone number on your phone then changed the world
> for ever for us...
>
> ...but I suppose even that has been lost from memory and experience.
>
> Thomas
>

I don't believe a single bit of it.  You're just pulling our leg.  Next 
thing you're going to tell us you had to stand up and walk to the tv to 
change the channel!

Sheesh! old folks with their made up stories to make us feel bad!
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