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Pascal Cheng's avatar

This reminds me of the small non-electric typewriter that I used for my papers. And I would first hand write the text for my paper. Then once I had made all my hand written edits, I would copy the text on my typewriter for the final paper that I would hand in. Quite the laborious process. I also seem to remember giving my senior thesis to be typed by another student who made money by typing papers for others.

Stephanie Shapiro's avatar

Pascal, I think I also hand-wrote many papers and at times paid someone to type them. Rumor has it that I hand-wrote my college application!

Pascal Cheng's avatar

I probably did the same with my application!

Patty Dann's avatar

Great piece! I yearn for the days of onion skin paper and changing typewriter ribbons-