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That's where we agree. But where we differ is in using a typewriter versus a word-processor. A few years after I had used nothing but word-processors, I had to
by simonblack 6y ago
That's where we agree.
But where we differ is in using a typewriter versus a word-processor. A few years after I had used nothing but word-processors, I had to use a typewriter again. It felt like I was in a straitjacket. The simplest job seemed difficult and annoying.
Every typo threatened either the use of white-out or to the need to throw the paper away and start afresh. Every time I changed my mind about the sequence of words, or the order of paragraphs, meant that I had to throw away what I had written and start again.
That was the moment I mentally discarded typewriters into the dustbin of history.
I still loved typewriters for what they were physically. But only as museum pieces, rather than something I could use on a daily basis.