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IBM Selectric

Posted By: gh on 2005-08-10
In Reply to: The boomer babes. sm - DixieDew

That is what I learned on, IBM Selectric and boy we thought we were fortunate when you could save a sentence or two and hit a key and it would print it out on subsequent reports, LOL.  When I made I mistake, I had to use white out for the original and then put a piece of paper between each carbon copy and erase the mistake and correct the first carbon copy, then take the piece of paper out and correct the second, so on and so forth, cause we used to make about four to five copies.  If the report looked too *crappy*, I would rip up the papers and do it over.  However, it was a great and wonderful time being trained and all that kind of stuff, ya know?  Then in 1984, I was trained on my first computer at a hospital I worked at.  I remember those days with fondness.


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YES. We had an IBM selectric with mag card
and we thought it was great! HAHAHAHA
I started out on a selectric & sometimes miss it!! nm
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Typewriters - and we had to share the Selectric so SM
we wouldn't fuss.
I loved my Selectric!!! still miss those days...
don't notice things have improved much - less human contact - what's the big deal about speed? Are we in a race?

I would go back to those days in a heartbeat - it just seemed like we laughed more, had more time for each other.

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different colors, so each time you made an error, you had to white out on your carbons with all of the matching colors and this doc hated errors and would point out that you had to use the whiteout.  Glad those days are over!
I worked on an IBM Selectric and used carbon paper
if the doctor changed something where you couldn't just use white out or correction tape on a few letters, you had to START OVER.
I taped a little paper duck on my selectric ball and sm
had fun watching it go back and forth while I typed. I was so happy when Selectrics came out, as those huge carriages always knocked over my cup of tea and anything else that was in its path on my desk!
I dunno. I sure do miss my Selectric and those onion-skin copies. nm
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