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The return of typewriter ribbons and carbon paper?
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.
Guess they never heard of Tempest.
I bet the NSA owns those IBM Selectrics...
I actually have one.
Still works.
Lol....
Had an old Remington that I loved and it would be much more secure than these monitored electronic gadgets.
Just don’t connect the computer to then Internet and it can’t spy on you...
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.
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.
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Have my manual Smith-Corona I bought with graduation money in 1977. Doubt if a ribbon could be found for it, though. Are electric typewriters out of the question, or can they be compromised, too? We own a Brother one of those.
How about just buying a computer with no internet connection?
Who knew, ribbon readers would make a comeback.
I still have my sleek, chic Olivetti portable from college in the mid-60s. It was considered a cutting edge Italian design back in those days.
Pretty neat article. I was thinking the other day how many “low tech” devices that have fallen out of use could find a role today.
Now, I admit I was thinking in terms of various “bug out”/SHTF scenarios at the time, so I was thinking more along the lines of carrier wave radios and mechanical computers. :) But the typewriter seems to be a very good example of an old tool finding new life in a real world situation.
Well, there is a up side to all of this!
When the next crater is in a US city, our politicians, intell and law enforcement will have their excuse in pocket, blame Snowden.
Of course a failure to secure our Southern Border, deport those who over stayed Visas (which actually includes the terrorists of 9-11 but isn’t mentioned often), our managing of this threat as if it is a mere law enforcement function, our political correct approach that doesn’t focus on the actual demographic from where the threat emanates, our immigration policies that are allowing in hundreds of thousands that have a value system that is entirely incompatible with liberal Western society and our Constitution, not can they actually be vetted, THOSE MINOR DETAILS our politicians, intell folks and law enforcement won’t touch once the next hole in in a city somewhere!
You know, there was a time before we had a terrorist problem, and back then we didn’t have massive surveillance systems that fly in the face of the US Constitution, a 9 billion per year TSA that has caught zero terrorists...
HA, I predicted this. The written word survived for at least 4,000 years on rock, skins, parchment, cloth, glass, and paper. One EMP could wipe out every word typed into computers.
I very much approve. Low tech is the best!
