Writing machines
As you might have guessed, I’m still clearing out the boxes left over from the move. I wonder if I packed up my iBook today, and took it out in 2018, if it would work straight away? And if it did, would I be able to connect it to anything?
* Bulgarian typewriters. These were cheap and cheerful in the ’70s.
* BBC Technology article on manual typewriters, and, yes, its a middle aged man thing.
* Bit of a rant about what computers do to your writing style. If I want to draft a lot of text, I personally use TextEditor on the iBook, and set the font to something like 16 so it is good and large on the screen. Minimal but with editing and spellcheck.
It was the mathematical symbols that got me into wordprocessing, that and graphics. If I wrote arguments and stories, i.e. text, then I can imagine that things could be different.