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Got any white out?
-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), September 07, 1999
Got Correction Ribbon?
-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), September 07, 1999.
Are you seriously suggesting that existing typewriters and word processors will not work........methinks you're a bit too far overboard if that is what you are suggesting!
-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), September 07, 1999.
I have a cool Underwood typewriter from the '30s or thereabouts. And I have tons of carbon paper. I bought it because I thought it looked good, but hey, it could be useful...!:-)
-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), September 07, 1999.
Craig,The answer to your question-is on the front of The Washington Times today. Apparently in the school districts in Va.only one is prepared (Arlington county). They have a picture of an administrator holding an old typewriter as her contingency plan. So you tell me!!???
Regards
-- Dave Butts (dciinc@aol.com), September 07, 1999.
I have pens and paper. Should work.
-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 07, 1999.
No electricity means no working electric typewriters or word processors; no coal or oil means no electricity means no working electric typewriters or word processors; no trains running means no coal or oil means no electricity means no working electric typewriteres or word processors; no telecommunications means no trains.......
-- cody (cody@y2ksurvive.com), September 07, 1999.
No electricity means no working electric typewriters or word processors; no coal or oil means no electricity means no working electric typewriters or word processors; no trains running means no coal or oil means no electricity means no working electric typewriters or word processors; no telecommunications means no trains.......
-- cody (cody@y2ksurvive.com), September 07, 1999.
actually- I just picked up an old manual typewriter for free left over at a yard sale yesterday- also a carpet sweeper, canning jars, foot locker, and stove pipe- all free......
-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.net), September 07, 1999.
I picked up an old Royal manual (1950's vintage) and a local thrift shop for $35. Found "universal" ribbons (black) at a local typewriter shop (they don't sell typewriters any more, but said they sell about 2 - 3 dozen manual typewriter ribbons annually. I bought six. Took the Royal home, cleaned the strike heads with WD-40 and lubricated (spastically oversprayed) with WD-40 all its underside guts, and voila': a fully Y2K compliant machine-- just like the one I used (and abused) forty years ago.
-- Dewer Dye (qwerty@!!!!.com), September 08, 1999.
I'm wondering how folks are going to put in bids? With a manual typewriter? If your PeeCee is down, who gives a sh!t about Ebay?
-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), September 08, 1999.
Ebay will go bust when the Internet experiences its first megacrash.Then we'll have the Great Garage Sale Renaissance!
-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), September 08, 1999.
Buy a lot of stock in Eberhard-Faber. They make pencils. No S**T.
-- @ (@@@.@), September 08, 1999.