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Blonde returns to work after many years

Only comprehensible to those over 40 -

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:00 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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heh -- I remember when they brought out the goose quill --we were overjoyed to be rid of our charred twigs

#1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-13 16:39 (Reply)

Over the age of 40? I'd say more like 50 - the IBM Selectric was introduced in late '60, early '61 and took the typing world by storm.

#2 Tom Francis on 2010-03-13 19:53 (Reply)

you might say, "words could not express how it could express words"

#2.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-13 21:20 (Reply)

Well under 50 here. The Selectric was a bit pricey for me to afford when I went off to college. I ended up taking the same manual Underwood that my mother used when she was in college.

I was a very popular guy during power failures.

When I bought my first computer I was under the impression that it would have a similar useful lifespan.

#2.2 DOuglas2 on 2010-03-13 22:09 (Reply)

I still remember the day the office moved from one building to another. In the trash were a half-dozen Selectrics, with boxes of ribbons and custom font balls all clipped to the little racks.... They saved ONE of the bunch to do multipart forms (occasionally). I still kick myself for not salvaging one. Not that I'd ever have used it I guess, but they were THE cool printer to have. (also abandoned was a 10 ton A/C for the computer room and a Liebert PDU. I could have had those also for the thousands it would have cost to remove. Missed out on the X-BAND satellite dish by one day. heh.)

#2.2.1 JoeC on 2010-03-15 17:31 (Reply)

Laughed my fool head off watching and re-watching her...the timing is impeccable. We went to computers in 1979 and you could see that right-hand quiver ever time a writer got to the end of a sentence...took ages for them to get used to wrap-around text (and use a pinky to tap "enter").

I'm sending this one to LOTS of people including my daughter who's 38 and a son-in-law who's 35. They still have some of my old Selectrics for use when their computers go down.

Really, this is a great way to start the day. I think I'll watch it again...

#3 jma on 2010-03-14 09:32 (Reply)

Isn�t she returning the carriage to the wrong side?

#4 foxmarks (Link) on 2010-03-14 13:49 (Reply)

Yep. I think they may have reversed the image. Still funny in a "been there, done that" mode.

#4.1 Jma on 2010-03-14 22:49 (Reply)

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Blonde returns to work after many years