Re: Good home for an electric typewriter??

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From: Tiny Human Ferret
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:19

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Beartooth wrote:
> 
>         I have one, bought new in 1982 or 83 and hardly ever
> used. Absent a real job (which materialized soon after, of
> course), I was going to go into full time translating for
> however long might prove necessary. It was supposed to be
> state of the art at the time, and has a German ball as well
> as an English one . . .  <rueful grin>
> 
>         I'd rather see it go to a deserving non-profit where
> it might fill a need and be used than sell it for scrap.
> Especially one that would send somebody to pick it up.
> <grin>
> 
>         (Btw, a friend who has just happened by says he has
> a daisy wheel printer similarly in need of a home.)

Actually, I am in the market for one of those old entirely-manual
Underwoods. You know, the keyboard that cannot die? I'd like to be able to
get legible text down on paper if the power's off. Plus, you can't do
TEMPEST on a manual...

> 
> --
> RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger, PhD

--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the
appearance, and produce the effects, of a treasonable correspondence 
with the public enemy.
		--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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From: Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net>
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