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Your last sentence is revealing! What the youngsters are used to now may become a thing of the past just like the carbon copy! sam 
posted by
sam444
on May 7, 2013 at 3:53 PM
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Pat
I do remember carbon paper. I even have an old IBM Selectric in my basement (although the ball has long since diappeared) as well as an even older Olivetti portable - both of them destined for an eventual garage sale, or maybe a museum that wants them...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 7, 2013 at 12:45 PM
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I remember having to do that...I hated to go back and make corrections because once you used white out it would take the carbon on the copy!
posted by
Annicita
on May 7, 2013 at 3:27 AM
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PatB
You know Pat I still have a box of carbon paper in my desk, memories are made of that, 'cuz I used to repair old Remington's and such.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 6, 2013 at 9:02 PM
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Pat I remember in the Pay Office all the wages of soldiers were typed in and printed.
We little under dogs noted that the one superior to us had made a nasty mistake in the figures, we typed it all in about 500 copies. After the uproar we had to cross out and rewrite in Biro, it was worth the aggro.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 6, 2013 at 8:43 AM
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If word-processors hadn't come along,
I'd never have written anything but long-winded, hand-written letters.
Sometimes I miss those days, where letters happened, and there was no email. I like letters.
posted by
Ciel
on May 6, 2013 at 8:26 AM
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