BangkokDean
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Oh, this is good. I wonder where I might find a typewriter?
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typewriter?
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68/70Vette
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I've logged many. many hours on typewriters.
In the early 1970's, I worked at TRW's space operations. It was universally common for engineers to write things in handwriting and give it to a secretary to be typed. I was an accomplished typist at the time. I insisted on a typewriter because I didn't want to write in hand. Created a fuss..in think the secretaries thought I was trying to take their job away. Anyhow, I became the first male engineer with a typewriter on my desk...IBM Selectric.
In the early 1970's, I worked at TRW's space operations. It was universally common for engineers to write things in handwriting and give it to a secretary to be typed. I was an accomplished typist at the time. I insisted on a typewriter because I didn't want to write in hand. Created a fuss..in think the secretaries thought I was trying to take their job away. Anyhow, I became the first male engineer with a typewriter on my desk...IBM Selectric.
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Back in the 60's my Father was in the insurance business with a rather large agency and 3 main partners, Dad was Prez of the operation, among other groups they wrote hospitalization insurance for all sorts of groups, and administered right from the office, remitting premiums and changes to the company/carrier, the operation got SO large they almost got to the point of carrying the risks themselves.....
Well one of the largest groups was the local Builder's Association, and so the changes from month to month on any given company account would be rather huge, as men flowed from job to job, and so to keep up with it all in a timely fashion they bought a SCM Smith Corona Marchant electronic billing machine....it ran off one of their electric typewriters, and a paper tape reader, the tape was an inch wide, and had holes in it telling the typewriter what to type on the tractor feed 3 copy deep paper roll......so Dorothy would follow what was going on and if changes she would be punching a tape for next month on the similar looking device on other end of the desk....so tons of chads would be filling up a trash can....so to stop the machine when a change came up, and modify the billing.....
The typewriter ran about 130 wpm, super fast ....and LOUD, so Dorothy was deaf, and hired specifically for that job in the soundproof room so rest of office could talk on the phone....
well the desk used to swing side to side with that heavy carriage return and it became irritating so Johnny tied the desk to the back wall, well the machine took off and on the 3rd carriage return, it broke the stops and the whole damn thing took a hole into the adjacent wall......the swing of the table legs/top was the shock absorber.....
the whole damn office had to go to work on just ONE billing for a VERY LARGE builder it all had to be done by hand.....
SCM presented a large bill for emergency repairs....
That stupid machine was on display at the Smithsonian Museum last I saw it in the late 70's, as a good example of early office automation....they donated it to the Museum....
:rofl::rofl::smash::smash:
Well one of the largest groups was the local Builder's Association, and so the changes from month to month on any given company account would be rather huge, as men flowed from job to job, and so to keep up with it all in a timely fashion they bought a SCM Smith Corona Marchant electronic billing machine....it ran off one of their electric typewriters, and a paper tape reader, the tape was an inch wide, and had holes in it telling the typewriter what to type on the tractor feed 3 copy deep paper roll......so Dorothy would follow what was going on and if changes she would be punching a tape for next month on the similar looking device on other end of the desk....so tons of chads would be filling up a trash can....so to stop the machine when a change came up, and modify the billing.....
The typewriter ran about 130 wpm, super fast ....and LOUD, so Dorothy was deaf, and hired specifically for that job in the soundproof room so rest of office could talk on the phone....
well the desk used to swing side to side with that heavy carriage return and it became irritating so Johnny tied the desk to the back wall, well the machine took off and on the 3rd carriage return, it broke the stops and the whole damn thing took a hole into the adjacent wall......the swing of the table legs/top was the shock absorber.....
the whole damn office had to go to work on just ONE billing for a VERY LARGE builder it all had to be done by hand.....
SCM presented a large bill for emergency repairs....
That stupid machine was on display at the Smithsonian Museum last I saw it in the late 70's, as a good example of early office automation....they donated it to the Museum....
:rofl::rofl::smash::smash:
