[HollyB]

Oh how I remember carbon copies. Ugghh. Then graduating to those IBM’s that had a memory and a screen that held about five words Lol. But, I remember the embarrassment I would feel if a document was sent back because of an error. We took pride in our perfection. Don’t they care anymore?

[ExTxMarine]

While in the Marine Corps, I typed Top Secret messages, in a locked closet on a typewriter. You only got issued ONE MESSAGE SHEET per message. You had to change the ribbon for each message.

In other words, DO NOT MESS UP, because you had to remove the ribbon, remove the message sheet, lock it in a briefcase, leave the closet, take those to the shredder room, then go get a NEW sheet, a NEW ribbon, and start ALL OVER!

Talk about embarrassing! You become a very careful typist - QUICKLY! Life SUCKED when I first took that job! I did realize that those "easy A" typing and keyboarding classes which I had in High School, would have better served me...had I actually paid attention!!

[Uversabound]

As you know, the freaking spell check fixes any errors as I type....for an old gal its still kinda crazy...

We have given up accuracy for technology.

Lets not go to long division please....

However, these weaklings will be the first to go in a disaster there I will be doing long division. LOL

Boy did I go off subject from the original catagory of this article but so goes the freeper......LOL