On 23/12/2014 08:33 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 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 ;-)

For what it's worth, my parents had a typewriter. They never *used* it 
for anything (as far as I can tell), but my sister and I had endless fun 
playing with it.

...fun, that is, until you make a mistake. For typewriters offer no way 
of correcting a mistake, other than to retype the entire page from scratch.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of odd that I spent so much time 
playing with a typewriter, given that I hadn't learned to read or write 
yet...

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