I'm not blind so I never turned in an illegible
paper because I couldn't
tell the ribbon wasn't working, but all this reminds
me of when I first
learned computer programming. Back then we used a
machine like a
typewriter that punched holes in cards about 6
inches by 2 inches long.
It was also supposed to type the information at the
top of the card as
well as punching holes. But the school didn't like
to pay for all the
ribbons for the typed part and changing them in
these machines was a
difficult process anyway. So, all you could do was
type along, and then
send it off to the computer and it would print out
your program and any
errors it found. Then when the program didn't work
you compared what
you intended to type with what the computer printed,
then found the card
with the typo, re-punched it and tried again.
But there is more to the story. The year before, a
graduate student had
written a program that would evaluate our programs
from the class and
print out the next assignment based on what kind of
errors we made.
Well, without the printing at the top os the cards,
I made so many typos
that by about the fourth assignment. the evaluation
program was trying
to get me to type more carefully by putting letters
that look similar
into the names I was supposed to use for the
mathematical symbold in the
program. So, they would be things like s5l1o0. Now
for someone
listening to that or reading in braille, you won't
know the problems it
gave me.
Misha
siss52 wrote:
> Hi Cindy
>
> We typed on the same kind of typewriter you would
use in those days. And
> no, there would not have been a "braille
typewriter". I never heard of a
> Braille typewriter. <smile>
>
> Sue S.
> ,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:18 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Old-time typing
papers
>
>
> Oh, my. What happened? Did the teacher or
professor
> laugh?
>
> I gather that in those days you had to type on a
> regular typewriter and there was no Braille
typewriter
> or you didn't have someone to type for you?
>
> G.Cindy
>
>
>
> --- Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Exactly. I once turned in a four page essay that
was
>> illegible because there
>> was no ribbon in my typewriter.
>>
>> Yuck. The pages felt fine (with all the dots
>> (periods) in the right places.
>> Just no ink.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:43 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to
stay
>> home and validate books
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> I remember it, and also remember how much more
>>>
>> difficult it was to correct
>>
>>> errors on a manual typewriter. If you really
>>>
>> goofed, you had to start
>>
>>> over.
>>> <smiling>
>>>
>>> Sue S.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:11 AM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to
stay
>>>
>> home and validate books
>>
>>> If anyone besides me can remember this, you'll
>>>
>> identify with it.
>>
>>> There's nothing more painful than typing on a
>>>
>> clunky manual typewriter on
>>
>>> a
>>> cold winter's day.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:29 AM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to
stay
>>>
>> home and validate books
>>
>>>
>>>> I do the same and have decided that computer
>>>>
>> keyboards are simply not like
>>
>>>> electric typewriters in that they have a
tendency
>>>>
>> to sneak in extra
>>
>>>> letters
>>>> that our finger grazes over without realizing
it.
>>>>
>> Jill
>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:41 AM
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to
>>>>
>> stay home and validate
>>
>>>> books
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I spell fine. I type fast. So I make typos
unless
>>>>>
>> I check things over.
>>
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