Thurlow wrote:
<To start with, "typewriters." My other half told me about two years ago
his young niece (then 11 years old) asked him, "Uncle Carl, what's a
typewriter?"
Yikes! :)>
Until four weeks ago I had a typewriter. A portable manual one at that. Kept
it in case I needed to write an urgent letter during a power cut! Yes, I
know, what could be so urgent that I would actually need to type a letter
during a power cut? If such a very rare situation did arise, what would be
wrong with hand writing a letter anyway?
Four weeks ago my next door neighbour asked if I knew where his sister could
get a manual typewriter. She had been a typist when young and is now in her
80s. She had tried an electric one her son bought her on ebay, but it had no
instructions and she couldn't fathom out how to work it and none of her
friends knew how it worked either. She certainly didn't think she could cope
with a computer. So now my manual typewriter (and a spare ribbon) has a new
home, and my neighbour's sister is happily typing out her life story on it.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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