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156. I don't remember having problems with it, and I LOVED the erase tape

Sun Oct 12, 2014, 10:54 PM

Oct 2014

No more Wite-Out!

Still, there was something about those old manual typewriters. Throwing the carriage back and hearing the 'ding.' The feel of the hard keys of an old Royal... I was a journalism student and staff writer and editor for school newspapers from JHS through college, so maybe the manuals made me feel like I was in 'The Front Page.'

As a side note, something interesting at the USC Daily Trojan in the '70s: sheet paper wasn't used for the manual typewriters. Instead, each machine was fed by a sheet-width paper roll made up of a carbon sandwiched between paper. No stopping to change paper sheets; you just kept typing, and whether your story was 1 foot long or 4 feet long you signed off with ##### or -30-30-30-30- and tore off your "copy," however long it came out.

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