The original laptop.
Posted on 07/15/2009 12:55:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
When we look upon the typewriter, we tend to think of it as a somewhat romantic, antiquated technology for the English major in us to write that great mystery novel we've been toying with -- not something we'd imagine anyone would still be using in a professional setting. Unfortunately for New York's boys in blue, that's exactly the situation they find themselves in. According to NY Post, the city has plunked down $982,269 in a contract with New Jersey-based Swintec to provide thousands of new manual electric typewriters bound for NYPD offices over the next three years, with another $99,570 going to a company for maintaining the current lineup. While arrest reports have thankfully gone the way of computers, property and evidence vouchers continue to be written up out the old fashioned way, with officers complaining about having to seek out ribbons when they (often) run dry. In some way, it's kind of funny... but mostly, it's just sad.
I didn’t even know they still MADE typewriters for use in the U.S.
Progress in Obamerica...
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OMG! they are SOOOOOoooooo "progressive"
If there aren’t kickbacks involved in this deal I’ll eat one of those typewriters.
Trying to keep them off Free Republic, I see.
Trying to keep them off Free Republic, I see.
New money making idea: get into the carbon paper business for idiot government agencies that are still using typewriters for forms. Maybe I can also figure out some way of making copies of cuneiform tablets and get some business from Babylonian government.
The office manager at my workplace still uses a typewriter to fill in certain forms that haven’t gone digital yet. I fill them in by hand because I don’t know how to use a typewriter.
The end of civilization will not mean the end of paperwork.
i am an nypd cop, as many of you know, and use typewriters almost every day.
it's the department forms. we are very far behind. only a select few forms are computerized. and they have to be handwritten out first before they are put into the computer! ha!
Probably for forms with carbon copies.
The original laptop.
they are electric typewriters.
I was in a Staples a couple of months ago, and was amazed to see that they actually did have typewriters (actually only one model, from one manufacturer) on display for sale.
I felt like I was at the Smithsonian Institute.
They could probably refurbish a whole load of old IBM Selectrics for less than a million bucks. They’d get one of the best typewriters ever made (I learned to type on one in high school, it was fantastic), and they could chain suspects to them to keep them from running away. Those things were HEAVY.
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One has to wonder what a warehouse in NJ filled with actualy electric typewriters was ever going to be worth had some ‘boss’ not made a deal to get rid of them to a fellow ‘boss’.
That's not the half of it.
I see that the department has given you computer with a shift key that doesn't work!
I’ve still got a Panasonic Electronic Typewriter (1989 model) for all those pesky .pdf conference registration forms and credit applications, as most organizations don’t put them in a “fill-in” format on the internet. But of course, I still have an overhead projector and a computer that has a 5 1/4” floppy drive in the storage room too, LOL!
zing.
got me.
you seem to be missing an 'a' somewhere in there.
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