I started typing on a PDP-8s back in the mid 1970s, and then used a Selectric a bit, followed by CDC and Tektronix dumb terminals in the late 1970s.
When I went to Eastern Europe in the mid-1980s, I took a manual typewriter for convenience in crossing borders without raised eyebrows--I did my favorite book translation (in addition to a bunch of other stuff) on that machine. Unfortunately, the airlines mangled the typewriter on my trip home :(.
I almost never bothered with whiteout--the locally-produced variety was pretty bad. FOrtunately, the X key and / worked almost as well for insertions and deletions in double-spaced text.
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When I went to Eastern Europe in the mid-1980s, I took a manual typewriter for convenience in crossing borders without raised eyebrows--I did my favorite book translation (in addition to a bunch of other stuff) on that machine. Unfortunately, the airlines mangled the typewriter on my trip home :(.
I almost never bothered with whiteout--the locally-produced variety was pretty bad. FOrtunately, the X key and / worked almost as well for insertions and deletions in double-spaced text.