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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:cedel@supernet.com" title=cedel@supernet.com>Clyde =
Hollinger</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"
title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 08, 2002 =
6:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Typewriter</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Friends,
<P>Do all of you have a typewriter? Do we all need one? =
I've had
one all my adult life, and I use it a lot in my business, but I am =
sort of
old-fashioned and not very "with it." My wife says I should =
change.
<P>My beloved 20-year-old Smith Corona portable finally reached the =
point of
no return about a year ago. I replaced it with a cheap portable, =
which
turned out to be so rotten I'd be embarrassed to <I>give</I> it =
away. I
am now using a quality machine that I got cheap, but it's eight years =
old and
every now and then the electronics in it go into conniptions and drive =
me
totally bats. (You suspected as much -- I know, I know!
<G>) Of course it behaves admirably when I take it to the =
repair
shop!
<P>So I'm thinking of buying a new one, which will probably run $500 =
and which
brings me back to my original question. Does even my little =
office need
a typewriter to be adequately appointed? I say yes; have you =
found the
answer to be no?
<P>Regards, <BR>Clyde Hollinger
<P> A week or two after the fact on this, but =
yes, I
have a typewriter and love it. It's a Royal Safari that I got
when I went off to college in 1967 and it still looks =
contemporary and
works great! It's much faster for typing up reminder =
cards and
invoices -- doesn't have to boot up; works when the electricity's off; =
no
waiting for program to load into memory; no figuring out the ins and =
outs and
weird quirks of word processing programs; the "printer" is built in; =
it's not
fussy about what kind of paper you use; and yes, I can still get =
ribbons much
much cheaper than ink cartridges for computer printers; I don't =
have to
re-configure the printer to type the address on the envelope or post
card.
<P> I do my reminder cards exactly like you -- =
they're
pre-printed: "Dear Ms. ______, I last tuned your =
piano
_______. Your piano will maintain pitch better if...blah
blah. Please call . . . to set up an appointment =
....",
etc. I fill in the blanks with pen, then turn it =
over and
type the address. I buy sheets of 21¢ stamps. May be
old-fashioned, but it suits me and by the time I figured out how =
to get
the computer to do it, I could probably have a hundred or more
done. Same with letters and invoices -- =
whip the
paper in there and start typing -- I'm done before I could even get =
things
booted up, loaded, and formatted on the computer. And it's =
already
printed when I finish the letter, including a carbon copy. Yes, =
you can
still buy carbon paper. Some old stuff still works
fine. Having a small yard, I'm thinking of doing away with =
the
polluting, noisy power mower and getting the old motorless push =
kind.
--David Nereson, RPT, Denver
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