[bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to stay home and validate books

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:40:09 -0800 (PST)

LOL. What about dialing a telephone? I used to do
Mindbenders with kids at my middle school, and there
was a clue that involved a telephone dial. They had no
idea what that was.

G.Cindy

--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One of the books I recently edited, for Bookshare,
> had to define a 
> Typewriter in the glossary, sigh.
> 
> It was published in 2005.
> 
> 
> Shelley L. Rhodes M.A., VRT, CTVI
> and Guinevere, Golden lady Guide
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Alumni Association Board
> www.guidedogs.com
> 
> More than Any other time, When i hold a beloved book
> in my hand, my 
> limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
> - Helen Keller
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:43 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: good weather to stay
> home and validate books
> 
> 
> 
> Changing the ribbons was always a fun, neat
> experience.  No such
> thing as a cartridge, just a nice clean ink soaked
> tape.  I had 2 old
> Underwoods that also just about took a hammer to get
> the letters dark
> enough when the ribbon started getting old.  I guess
> that part didn't
> really matter though, as they were so heavy you
> ended up looking like
> the Incredible Hulk if you had to tote them around
> much.  I do
> however sort of wish I still had 1 as a conversation
> piece if nothing
> else.  They would probably be like old 78 records
> and a turntable for
> kids to be amazed at.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 12:06 AM 12/11/2007, you wrote:
> >Worse than that is getting almost to the end of a
> page
> >when writing a term paper and having to retype it
> >because you can't have erasure marks or cross-out
> and
> >there was no such thing as whiteout erasure
> tape--and
> >even later when there was it was too messy and
> >everything had to be typed.
> >
> >But I'm not so old that I had to type in the cold,
> >Bob. We always had heat--grin.
> >
> >G.Cindy
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