[Magdalen] Computer Question.

Christopher Hart cervus51 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 04:10:22 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Back then, we were just salivating about some newfangled
> word-processing gizmos that LET YOU SAVE STUFF AND REVISE IT before
> printing it out to turn in. Wowzers! No more having to do my trick of
> typing the final paper on the sort of erasable onionskin from which
> one could practically wipe ink with one's finger (I cringe as I wonder
> how those papers looked after being slid around in a stack on the
> prof's desk).
>

​I survived college on erasable bond typing paper. Most of my term papers
were composed directly on the typewriter on that sort of paper. What I
would have given to be able to cut and paste and rearrange thoughts as one
can now with a word processing program.​
-- 

Christopher Hart

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