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Old technology in NSA age: Typewriter sales surge in Germany
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| July 23, 2014
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Posted on 07/23/2014 7:09:30 PM PDT by Enterprise
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Love those old typewriters.
To: Enterprise
The return of typewriter ribbons and carbon paper?
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:12:42 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Enterprise
I’ve been thinking of looking for my manual Royal Typewriter. Built in 1927 and weight a quarter ton. I hid it somewhere, maybe to weigh the house down. If this trend continues, you may find young people studying Greg’s Shorthand along with entering typing contests.
To: SandRat
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
Guess they never heard of Tempest.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Enterprise
I bet the NSA owns those IBM Selectrics...
I actually have one.
Still works.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:15:07 PM PDT
by
glasseye
To: Enterprise
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:16:31 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Enterprise
Had an old Remington that I loved and it would be much more secure than these monitored electronic gadgets.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:17:33 PM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: SandRat
I think i saw a forensics show way back when, where they reconstructed letters typed via the ribbon. It was genius back in it's time. No time stamp on the ribbon but i loved it, caught! Oh wait, maybe it was a Columbo episode :)
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:21:07 PM PDT
by
GizzyGirl
To: mylife
A security expert might advise them of the hazards of using electric typewriters regarding tempest. Not to worry though if they are going to be using the old non electric typewriters. Maybe a few jobs for clerk typists will come back.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:22:26 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: glasseye
They made a top secret version of the selectric to prevent spies from intercepting what was typed on them by measuring the change in voltage on the power line while typing,
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:22:35 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(What is the differnce in spontinaity and ADD?)
To: Enterprise
Just don’t connect the computer to then Internet and it can’t spy on you...
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:23:42 PM PDT
by
DB
To: Enterprise
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:23:47 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: txrefugee
I have good memories of using the old ones. Kind of like someone who likes old cars.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:25:59 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: GizzyGirl
Same story used a couple of times on “Ben Mattlock.”
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:28:21 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Enterprise
The Germans are right on this.
Let the NSA try to snarf up typed documents through secure carriers.
Some things you can’t just effortlessly skim and store in Utah.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:32:13 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Enterprise
Add TYPEWRITER to the list of NSA spying/search history red flag words along with PRESSURE COOKER, and BACKPACK. Something to hide.
Going back to a typewriter must be an experience since there’s nothing to put a squiggly red line under spelling errors, and no backspace key to facilitate in correcting errors.
To: Enterprise; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon
ICH BIN EIN TYPELINER
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:36:40 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Computers were too ... mainstream)
To: Antihero101607
Actually there IS a backspace key but it doesn’t correct an error. You had to erase the typo and type it over.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:37:14 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
To: Antihero101607
Later model Selectrics were available in self-correcting.
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posted on
07/23/2014 7:37:38 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
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