AMEN! I actually used to type UPI teletypes
Posted By: omt on 2005-12-29
In Reply to: Typewriters (let us remember) sm - OldBabe
when I worked as a newsroom clerk back in the mid 1970's. That was the only way to send a breaking story from one newspaper to another around the state. Little teeny keyboard and if you made an error, you typed XXX and then started over. It went to an editor, then it went to a typist (which was me again on the receiving end) who typed it on plain rolls of brownish paper on a manual typerwriter, proofed it, wrote changes in red pen, rolled it up and sent it down a shute to the composing room where it was proofed again and every single individual letter on a metal plate was arranged into words and sentences for the printing press. I'll tell you what though, there were a lot less errors in the newspaper back when people actually read the stuff to proofread it.
That was my very first computer experience job when they got a "desktop" computer that was bigger than a 32" TV.
My manual typewriter in that newsroom had a loose carriage so when I hit the return bar, 9 times out of 10 the carriage would fly off on the floor and I'd have to pick it up and set it back on. I used to take stories over the phone on that old battle axe typewriter with the phone receiver crooked under my chin. Small town and people were so used to it, I'd say, "Can you hang on a second?" and they'd say, "Gotta pick up the carriage again?"
They built a new state of the art newspaper building about 15 years ago and just bulldozed the area to expand a an existing parking lot. The old printing press was in the basement of the old building and they just buried it and paved over it.
Time marches on.
Kudos to all of you oldsters out there. I think one thing that makes us really great is our ability to keep adapting to new technology.
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