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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 22:50:05 GMT
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In article <1990Aug30.192500.29442@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
> fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
> >***TYPEWRITER??!!!***
> 
> 	Let's not over-react.  I'm a big fan of not throwing away perfectly
> good tools just because something sexier has come along.

Me neither.  I'm still using manual-focus cameras and riding my bicycles
(which, if they aren't Victorian-period engineering, aren't anything).  I know
full well the advanatges (and disadvantages) of, say, auto- vs manual-focus
systems, I've made my living with photography in the past, I know newer
isn't always better.  But...

> For some jobs
> (say, typing 1-off envelopes or labels, or filling out pre-printed forms),
> you can't touch the ease of use of a typewriter with any word processor
> that I know of.  

The envelopes work fine with a DeskWriter. (I admit that it doesn't rain in
California.)  For pre-printed forms, a pen or pencil works as well as a
typewriter.  Probably better.

Still, a typewriter is a cantankerous beast, and unforgiving of mistakes.

> Perhaps it's a matter of semantics as to whether that's a typewriter or a
> word processor, but certainly a Mac or PC is gross overkill for many
> situations.

Sure, but if you've got one in use for other things, there's no really
compelling reason not to use for other tasks you might have.

I've got nothing against people buying or using typewriters, you understand.

I just don't happen to like 'em.  (The typewriters, not the people in
question.)

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